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The Great Firewall of China OPG Executive Director Will Doherty presented a program entitled "The Great Firewall of China: Filtering, Blocking, and Government Censorship" to the annual Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference in New York City, Online Policy Group (April 3, 2003)

	OPG Climbs "Great Firewall" at Computers Freedom and Privacy Conference
	OPG Executive Director Will Doherty will lead a plenary entitled "The Great Firewall of China - Internet Filtering and Free Expression" at the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy conference taking place at the New Yorker Hotel from 10:30am - 12:00 noon, Online Policy Group (April 3, 2003)

	The Spam Problem: Moving Beyond RBLs
	Alternatives to Realtime Blackhole Lists (RBLs) should be actively deployed because of serious well-known problems with the RBL spam filtering technique, Philip Jacob (December 30, 2002)

See No Evil: How Internet Filters Affect the Search for Online Health Information

With a case pending before the U.S. Supreme Court challenging mandatory filters in libraries, the Foundation conducted a comprehensive study that indicates Internet filters most frequently used by schools and libraries can effectively block pornography without significantly impeding access to online health information - but only if they aren’t set at their most restrictive levels, Kaiser Family Foundation (December 10, 2002)

	Australian Internet Blocking Law a Failure, Group Urges Repeal
	Electronic Frontiers Australia submitted a review of the Australian Broadcasting Services Act of 1992 asking the government to repeal the provisions requiring Internet blocking, Electronic Frontiers Australia (November 8, 2002)

	SurfControl Reports First Quarter of Net Profitability
	SurfControl (London:SRF, Nasdaq Europe:SRFC), the world's number one Web and email filtering company, today reported its first quarter of net profitability, SurfControl (November 5, 2002)

	Taming the WWW: A Provocative Discussion on Internet Filtering
	OPG Executive Director Will Doherty organizes panel on Internet blocking at OpenGov02 conference, California First Amendment Coalition (October 19, 2002)

	Freedom of Speech on the Internet; What You Should Know
	You should be aware that the censorship programs that schools and libraries are currently forced to enlist might not be respecting your Constitutional rights, Erin Dorney via Online Policy Group (September 23, 2002)

Internet Filtering Software Wrongly Blocks Many Sites The Online Policy Group (OPG) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today released preliminary results of research on Internet blocking or filtering in schools, Online Policy Group (September 18, 2002)

	Fact Sheet on Internet Filters
	This fact sheet summarizes the most salient facts about Internet filters, Free Expression Policy Project (September 17, 2002)

	SurfControl Reports Significant Growth in Revenue
	SurfControl (London:SRF, Nasdaq Europe:SRFC), the world's number one Web and e-mail filtering company, today reported its first full year of EBITDA profitability, SurfControl (September 10, 2002)

	Edelman v. N2H2, Inc. - Case Summary & Documents
	The ACLU has filed a new lawsuit challenging the DMCA on behalf of Ben Edelman, a Harvard student who has played an active role in several cyberlaw litigation matters, Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School (July 25, 2002)

ACLU Sues for Right to Decode Blocked-Site Lists The ACLU has filed a lawsuit challenging portions of a 1998 law, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), which make it illegal to write and publish programs that decode the lists of sites blocked by blocking software programs, American Civil Liberties Union (July 25, 2002)

	Youth, Pornography, and the Internet
	A new report suggests education rather than Internet blocking software as a better way to protect children online, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (May 2, 2002)

	Effectiveness of Internet Filtering Software Products
	A newly-released report on a detailed study conducted in September 2001 to test the performance of 14 filtering programs using nearly 900 websites and finds that the products differ in their effectiveness and that none provide perfect filtering of content, Australian Broadcasting Authority (Adobe pdf file) (March 26, 2002)

	Birds, Bees, and Filtering Technology: The Impact of CIPA on Adolescent Health
	Stacy Lau's paper analyzes the effects of the Children's Internet Protection Act on the health of minors, Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy, Princeton University (Adobe pdf file) (January 8, 2002)

	Internet Filters -- A Public Policy Report
	In the spring and summer of 2001, the Free Expression Policy Project of the National Coalition Against Censorship surveyed all of the studies and tests that it was able to locate describing the actual operation of 19 products or software programs that are commonly used to filter out World Wide Web sites and other communications on the Internet, Free Expression Policy Project (October 1, 2001)

Internet Blocking in Schools and Libraries: Law, Litigation, and Community Response Internet blocking presentation on technology, legal, and policy issues followed by a panel at the San Francisco Public Library with David Burt (N2H2), Will Doherty (OPG/EFF), Lee Tien (EFF), Mark Leno (SF Board of Supervisors), and Susan Hildreth (SF Public Library), Online Policy Group and Electronic Frontier Foundation (May 6, 2001)

Internet Blocking Policy Presentation A presentation on Internet blocking and policy implications by Will Doherty, OPG Executive Director, at the University of Southern Illinois at Edwardsville, Online Policy Group (April 23, 2001)

	Research Software
	Open source software utilities designed to assist with OPG research and available to the general public in order to encourage further research, Online Policy Group (January 1, 2001)

Peacefire Peacefire has an excellent selection of reports on various blocking technology products, a blocking software FAQ, and lots of other useful information, such as documentation of the vulnerability of blocking technology to simple workarounds by children, Peacefire (July 21, 2000)

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