censorware

Due to these problems, it's sometimes referred to as "censorware"

"It shows that censorware is about control, not filtering," he said.

However, two other terms, censorware and web filtering, while more controversial, are often used.

This has led some to call it "censorware".

The authors on the site have been opponents of web content filtering and content-control software, which they refer to as censorware or blocking software.

The initiative also found that Myanmar, arguably the most repressive regime in the world, uses censorware from the American company Fortinet.

"There was a big social campaign among civil libertarians to talk up and tout censorware as both a legal and social argument against government censorship," he said.

Those critical of such software, however, use the term "censorware" freely: consider the Censorware Project, for example.

Haselton's other activities include "bug hunter, spam litigant, censorware buster, [and] circumvention software provider."

In the late 1990s, groups such as the Censorware Project began reverse-engineering the content-control software and decrypting the blacklists to determine what kind of sites the software blocked.

ICAP is generally used to implement virus scanning and content filters (including censorware) in transparent HTTP proxy caches.

On the other hand, Web-based newspapers such as CNET use the term in both editorial and journalistic contexts, for example "Windows Live to Get Censorware."

When our national information policy is turned over to anonymous, unaccountable censorware vendors, we fail to deliver a safe online environment for our children and we undermine our own free access to information.

The Web site of the Censorware Project, an advocacy organization that opposes the use of blocking software in public institutions (www.censorware.org), contains a complete record of the Loudoun case and information on blocking software.

As a founder of the Censorware Project, an anti-filtering advocacy group, Mr. Finkelstein has influenced public debate and legal decisions, including a First Amendment case on filtering policy at a public library in Virginia.

And Singapore's government-controlled Singnet server uses filtering technology from SurfControl, a company formed from the merger of several censorware companies that is now technically British but has its filtering operations headquarters in California.

In general, outside of editorial pages as described above, traditional newspapers do not use the term censorware in their reporting, preferring instead to use terms such as content filter, content control, or web filtering; the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal both appear to follow this practice.

Content-control software, content filtering software, secure web gateways, censorware, and web filtering software are terms for software designed and optimized for controlling what content is permitted to a reader, especially when it is used to restrict material delivered over the Internet via the Web, e-mail, or other means.