Filters that screen out pornography and other objectionable material rarely block Web sites containing information about alcohol abuse, breast cancer, depression or sexually transmitted diseases, the ...

Last November, Ryan, a high-school sophomore, figured out a way to outsmart the Web filters on a school PC in order to visit the off-limits MySpace.com while doing “homework” in the computer lab. A ...

A European Internet study has an instant message for parents who want to control their children's online habits: web filters are not 100 percent foolproof against harmful sites. A solid 84 percent of ...

Filtering at the Internet service provider (ISP) level will result in businesses experiencing speed reductions, higher access fees and the possibility of being unintentionally blocked, according to ...