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YouTube Offers Filter For Offensive Content

People who are concerned about offensive videos and comments on YouTube will now have a way of limiting what others see on their computer, thanks to a new safety mode feature that YouTube is rolling out.

In the Media by Owen Weldon

Activists take down Australian government websites

Attacks are believed to be in protest against Australia's impending Internet filtering legislation and the Classification Board's decision to ban the sale of porn films in Australia which shows small-breasted women.

In the Media by Michael Squires - 16 comments

Op-Ed: Australia's much hyped web porn filter a dud

Quite a few million dollars later, the idea of a porn filter has crashed. There’d been a lot of doubt about the whole concept, most of it was proved correct. Tests showed teens were easily able to get around the thing, and users weren’t interested.

In the Media by Paul Wallis - 4 comments

Dutch Scientist Creates Hyper Efficient Diesel Filtering Technology Using Laser Beams

A Dutch researcher has developed a laser system to investigate soot development in diesel engines which uses Laser Induced Incandescence (LII) which eliminates soot right where it's generated.

In the Media by Angelique van Engelen

Bottle makes dirty water drinkable in an Instant

Michael Pritchard discovers a “Life Saver” bottle that will convert the most impure water into clean potable water in seconds. The bottle sells for £190 and has become a big hit in London. Military is keen to buy this technology from him.

In the Media by Chris V. Thangham - 3 comments

The Death Of YouTube: Content Filtering

Google implements filters. Fans run to Revver. YouTube creators shrug shoulders and enjoy their $1.6 Billion

In the Media by malan - 11 comments

Your brain is like a spam filter - Bayesian Brains

Forget the traditional procedural computer model. Your brain may work much more like the sapm filter on your email client.

In the Media by Thespian

Titanium Fiber Paper; Tough Stuff

Another possibly useful discovery and it's "Self-Cleaning" how neet. hehe

In the Media by KeithLDick

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EU court blocks net-filtering bid

A social network cannot be required to install an anti-piracy filtering system, the top EU court rules.

Mobile porn filters 'censorship'

A report finds that 60 sites have been wrongly blocked by UK mobile filters designed to protect children.

Million homes 'need TV filters'

Filters will need to be installed in almost a million UK homes to combat TV interference likely to occur from new 4G mobile services.

Google rejects porn block rules

During a debate hosted by Google, the search giant says that automatic porn filters are a mistake.

VIDEO: The governments censoring the web

BBC Monitoring's Duncan Stanworth explains why certain countries are routinely filtering what its citizens see on the internet and what web-users can do to get around censorship.