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Indecent Game Sales Now A Felony In New York
Gonzales Wants ISP Data Retention To Curb Child Porn
Ford To Introduce Restrictive Car Keys For Parents
Sex Offender E-Mail Registry Signed Into Law
Congress vs Misleading Meta Tags
US Intensifies Fight Against Child Pornography
House Passes Ban on Social Site Access
Congress May Add Record Requirements to MySpace
New York's Slap to the Facebook
Tool To Allow ISPs To Scan Every File You Transmit
File Sharing — Harmful to Children and a Threat to National Security
Irish Gov't Seeks To Rein In Cyber Bullying
ISPs to Create Database to Combat Child Porn
Microsoft Puts Police Link on Messenger
Possession of Violent Pornography Outlawed in UK
Consumer Electronics Causing 'Death of Childhood'?
Google Patents Detecting, Tracking, Targeting Kids
Student Arrested for Writing Essay
Fighting Porn Vs. Ruining Innocent Lives
Google Brazil Pressured to Give Up Names
Restrictions On Social Sites Proposed In Georgia
Teens Prosecuted For Racy Photos
Award-Winning Ad Taken Off Air In Australia
Proposed Legislation Would Outlaw "Cyberbullying" in US
Rethinking IM Privacy For Kids
US ISPs Announce Anti-Child-Porn Agreement
National Car Tracking System Proposed For US
Summer Camps Join Fray Against MySpace
Three ISPs Agree To Block Child Porn
Chinese Govt Limits Kids to 3hrs of Online Gaming
Sesame Street DVD Deemed Adult-Only Entertainment
Australian Government Censorship 'Worse Than Iran'
Kent State Banning Athletes from Using Facebook
NY Governor to Target Violent Video Games
Christian Group Prepares To Mark Wii as 'Porn Portal'
FTC Fines Xanga for Violating Kids' Privacy
MySpace Sued by Families of Online Predator Victims
German TOR Servers Seized
Germany Searches Credit Cards For Child Porn Payments
Lego Christmas Production Shortage
Online Parent-Child Gap Widens
Senators OK $1 Billion for Online Child Porn Fight
Virginia Becomes First State to Mandate Internet Safety Lessons
Washington Bans Chemicals; Industry Freaks
SCO Chairman Fights to Ban Open Wireless Networks
Suit Blames Videogames for Homicides
The Story of the Pedophile-catching Hacker
Violent Games 'Almost' As Dangerous as Smoking
Brains Work Best At Age of 39
Connecticut Wants to Restrict Social Networking
Good Email For Kids?
MySpace Agrees to Share Sex Offender Data
Regulation That Could Stifle Video Over the Net?
State of Ohio Establishes "Pre-Crime" Registry
Utah Anti-Kids-Spam Registry "a Flop"
Deleting Online Predators Act - R.I.P.
MySpace Age Verification - for Parents
Teacher Found Guilty of Endangering Kids Due to Spyware
Senators Call for Universal Internet Filtering
Hong Kong Using Children to Hunt for Piracy
Illinois Bill Would Ban Social Networking Sites
Student Arrested for Making Videogame Map of School
Utah Wants To Give ISPs That Filter a "G-Rating"
Australia to Offer Widespread ISP-level Filtering
FCC Report - TV Violence Should be Regulated
FCC to Develop 'Super V Chip' To Screen All Content
How Bad Can Wi-fi Be?
FCC Report Supports Use of White Spaces For Wireless
ISP Tracking Legislation Hits the House
Judge Strikes Down COPA, 1998 Online Porn Law
Major UK Child Porn Investigation Flawed
RIAA Going After a 10-Year-Old Girl
Report Suggests That Nanny State Might Actually Not Be For the Best
SCO Chair's Anti-Porn Act Advances In Utah
'Porn King' Says Google Should Block Porn Access
Massachusetts Looks To Jack Thompson for Game Law
School Boards Rule, Internet No Longer Dangerous
Senator Proposes to Monitor All P2P Traffic for Illegal Files
The Coming Fight Over TV Violence
Video Games Linked To Child Aggression
Teachers Fake Gunman Attack
Nation-Wide Internet Censorship Proposed For Australia
Sen. Ted Stevens Introduces "Son of DOPA"
US Outlaws Online Gambling
Video Game Labeling Law Passed In New York
Why ISPs' "Stand" Against Child Porn Is Actually Not a Stand Against Child Porn
China Treats Internet Addiction Very Seriously
Cyberbullying Laws Raise Free Speech Questions
Using AI to Monitor Kids Online
Miami Court Orders Take Two to Hand Over Bully
12 Florida Schools Pass Anti-Evolution Resolutions
Couple Who Catch Cop Speeding Could Face Charges
Germans Pursuing Kiddie Porn In Second Life
Google Turns Over Data on Suspected Pedophiles In Brazil
Laptops Can Be Searched At the Border
Ontario Proposes School Cyber-Bullying Law
Politicians and the Cyber-Bully Pulpit
States Seek Laws to Curb Online Bullying
Australia Plans to Censor the Internet
Many Dead In Virginia Tech Shooting
War Declared on Caps Lock Key
MySpace to Offer Spyware for Parents
Truth in Ratings Act Reintroduced
Mainstream Coverage of Manhunt 2
Senate Committee Passes FCC Indecency Bill
You Played Violent Games - Why Can't Your Kids?
COPA Suffers Yet Another Court Defeat
Canadian Bill C-416 to Require Wiretapping
Finnish Censorship Expanding
George Lucas To Quit Movie Business
Internet "Creates Pedophiles" According to "Expert"
Kids with Cell Phones, How Young is Too Young?
RIAA Wants Student Deposed On School Day
Thailand Blocks Anti-Royal Websites
US School Curriculum to Include Online Safety?
YouTube Bans Gun and Knife Videos In the UK
UK Propose Registering Screen Names with Police
Ex-judge Gets 27 Months on Evidence From Hacked PC
No Video Games on School Nights
UK Proposes Banning Computer Generated Abuse
'Over 30' Section For Games Stores?
Censorware Not Good, Just Better Than COPA
Computer Games Make Players Less Violent
Continued Opposition To Laptops in Schools
FBI and Next-Gen P2P Monitoring
From Bess to Worse
Google Sued for Allegedly Profiting From Child Porn
Having Your ID Stolen Leads to Job Loss, Prosecution
How To Configure Real PC Parental Controls?
Microsoft Ties $235m IT Aid To Use of Windows
R.I.P Usenet: 1980-2008
Report Warns Against Well-Meaning Net Censorship
School Admins Demand Access to Students' Cellphones
Schools Banning Homework?
Teens Actually Do Protect Their Online Profiles
Visual Basic on GNU/Linux
Astronomers Say Dying Sun Will Engulf Earth
EU Commissioner Calls For Censorship of Web Search
MADD Targets GTA IV Over Drunk Driving Scene
Only 2 in 500 College Students Believe in IP
Sport Is Unrelated To Obesity In Children
Supreme Court to Hear FCC Indecency Case
Video Racing Games May Spur Risky Driving
FBI Posts Fake Hyperlinks To Trap Downloaders of Illegal Porn
Verizon Cutting Access To Entire Alt.* Usenet Hierarchy
'Dangers of the Internet' Resolution Passed By Senate
Bill to Bring A La Carte, Indecency Regs to Cable
Crytek Considers Leaving Germany Over Game Law
DoJ Mulls Tracking Picture Uploads
Family Group Releases Annual Games Report Card
Germany Wants EU to Ban Violent Games
Global Warming Only a Theory, Says School Board
Microsoft's High School Opens in PA
Most Laws Attempting Limits of Violent Videogames Fail
New Vote on .xxx Internet Address Nears
One Laptop Per Child and Intel Join Forces
Schools Act to Short-Circuit 'Cyberbullying'
Study Finds Games Stores Still Selling to Minors
US Senators Take On The ESRB Over Manhunt 2
Videogame Decency Act in Congress
EU Considering Regulating Sale of Violent Games
Google to Anonymize Users' Search Data
Spreading "1 in 5" Number Does More Harm Than Good
13-Year-Old CEO Steals the Show At TiECON
A Home Lab/Shop For Kids?
Alarm Raised On Teenage Hackers
Attacking Sandboxes
Child-Suitable Alternatives To Passwords?
Court Strikes Down Age Verification For Adult Sites
Encrypted Ammunition?
GameStop Manager Suspended After "Games for Grades"
Holocaust Dropped From Some UK Schools
How Do You Punish a 16-year-old Spammer?
Is Virtual Rape a Crime?
Let the Games Be Doped
MS Seeks Patent For Repossessing School Computers
MTV Bleeps Filesharing Software Names In Weird Al Video
Merck To Halt Lobbying For Vaccine
Microsoft Pushes Windows To Battle Linux In Africa
MySpace Gets False Positive In Sex Offender Search
MySpace Private Pictures Leak
News On Laptops For Education
Online Colleges Could Spy On Students – By Law
Oregon's New Censorship Law Challenged In Court
Picasa Rolls Out 3.0 — Now With Facial Recognition
Pittsburgh Cancer Center Warns of Cell Phone Risks
Robots Teach Autistic Kids Social Skills
School District To Parents — Buy Office 2007
School Official Sues Over MySpace Page
Semi-Identical Twins Discovered
Steve Irwin Dead
Student, Denied Degree For MySpace Photo, Sues
Teacher Julie Amero Gets a New Trial
Thailand Bans Teen Info On the Net
The War Against Virtual Beer Pong
Toddlers May Learn Language By Data Mining
Jack Thompson Files Take-Two, Rockstar Lawsuit
LiveJournal Says Users are Responsible for Content of Links
Should Schools Block Sites Like Wikipedia?
Facebook Agrees To User Safety Plan