Internet Filtering Software and its Effects
Sutton, Lynn
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- abstract
- Internet filters are computer software devices designed to limit, block, or restrict access to objectionable content. Internet filters have been mandated by a number of governments and government agencies. Filters are controversial because they sometimes incorrectly block legitimate material and sometimes fail to block objectionable material. While filter use is growing in libraries, librarians are divided on the effectiveness and desirability of filters for their users, being especially sensitive to the needs of the disadvantaged for information.
- subject
- access to information
- Children's Internet Protection Act
- digital divide
- filtering software
- filters
- internet
- internet filters
- intellectual freedom
- public libraries
- school libraries
- contributor
- date
- 2013-07-26T19:54:21Z (accessioned)
- 2013-07-26T19:54:21Z (available)
- 2009 (issued)
- identifier
- Sutton, Lynn. (2009). "Internet Filtering Software and Its Effects." In Marcia J. Bates & Mary Niles Maack, Eds., Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, Third Edition. Available at http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1081/E-ELIS3-120044425#. (citation)
- 0-8493-9712-x (isbn)
- http://hdl.handle.net/10339/38650 (uri)
- http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1081/E-ELIS3-120044425# (uri)
- publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- source
- Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, Third Edition
- title
- Internet Filtering Software and its Effects
- type
- Article