CHAPTER 31
WEB MONITORING AND CONTENT FILTERING
Steven Lovaas
31.3.3 Supporting Organizational Human Resources Policy
31.5.2 Third-Party Block Lists
31.1 INTRODUCTION.
The Internet has been called a cesspool, sometimes in reference to the number of virus-infected and hacker-controlled machines, but more often in reference to the amount of objectionable content available at a click of the mouse. This chapter deals with efforts to monitor and control access to some of this content. Applications that perform this kind of activity are controversial: Privacy and free-speech advocates regularly refer to “censorware,” while the writers of such software tend to use the term “content filtering.” This chapter uses “content filtering,” without meaning to take a side in the argument by so doing. For more on the policy and legal issues surrounding Web monitoring and content filtering, see Chapters 48 and ...
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