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	<title>Parental Control &#187; Web filtering</title>
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		<title>Playboy censors iPad app to pass Apple&#8217;s morality test</title>
		<link>http://www.parentalcontrol.co.uk/2010/08/playboy-censors-ipad-app-to-pass-apples-morality-test</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Aug 2010 09:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Holden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Telegraph reports that Playboy, the adult magazine run by Hugh Heffner, has agreed to remove all risqué content from its iPad app in order to avoid breaching Apple’s strict anti-obscenity rules.
Anyone forking out £3.20 for the digital version of the magazine will have to do without the explicit photo spreads that titillated generations of teenage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Gulf states to ban some Blackberry functions</title>
		<link>http://www.parentalcontrol.co.uk/2010/08/two-gulf-states-to-ban-some-blackberry-functions</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 09:39:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Holden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The BBC reports that two Gulf states have announced bans on some functions of the Blackberry mobile phone, claiming security concerns.
The United Arab Emirates is to block sending emails, accessing the internet, and delivering instant messages to other Blackberry handsets. Saudi Arabia is to prevent the use of the Blackberry to Blackberry instant messaging service.
Both nations [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vietnam cracks down on online games</title>
		<link>http://www.parentalcontrol.co.uk/2010/07/vietnam-cracks-down-on-online-games</link>
		<comments>http://www.parentalcontrol.co.uk/2010/07/vietnam-cracks-down-on-online-games#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2010 15:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Holden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Guardian reports that access to online games, such as these being played in Beijing, is being restricted in Vietnam.
Vietnam has banned the advertisement of online games and restricted access after several cases in which young people have committed murder or robbery to get money to play, an official said today.
The ministry of information and communications&#8217; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Russian court blocks YouTube</title>
		<link>http://www.parentalcontrol.co.uk/2010/07/russian-court-blocks-youtube</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Jul 2010 15:24:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Holden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Web filtering]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Telegraph reports that a court in Russia has blocked access to YouTube after the website was accused of hosting extremist propaganda. The decision came after a video entitled &#8220;Russia for Russians,&#8221; a Russian extremist slogan, was allegedly posted on the video sharing site.
The court, in the city of Komsomolsk-on-Amur, also ordered the local internet services [...]]]></description>
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		<title>News bytes</title>
		<link>http://www.parentalcontrol.co.uk/2010/07/news-bytes-36</link>
		<comments>http://www.parentalcontrol.co.uk/2010/07/news-bytes-36#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 09:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Holden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some internet porn sites in China now accessible
The Independent reported on leaks from Twitter that internet porn that once was blocked by Chinese government censors was now openly available.
&#8220;Are they no longer cracking down on pornographic websites? A lot of porn sites and forums are accessible,&#8221; technology blogger William Long wrote on his feed.
Messages like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Google may be forced out of China despite changing censorship tactics</title>
		<link>http://www.parentalcontrol.co.uk/2010/06/google-may-be-forced-out-of-china-despite-changing-censorship-tactics</link>
		<comments>http://www.parentalcontrol.co.uk/2010/06/google-may-be-forced-out-of-china-despite-changing-censorship-tactics#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 15:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Holden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Telegraph reports on how Google has promised to cease automatically redirecting its Chinese users to its Hong Kong website, which lies outside the bounds of Chinese regulations and can therefore offer uncensored results. However industry experts warned that its move may be too little too late.
The search engine had been using the Hong Kong loophole to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>InternetSafety.com argues .xxx domains will profit adult websites</title>
		<link>http://www.parentalcontrol.co.uk/2010/06/internetsafety-com-argues-xxx-domains-will-profit-adult-websites</link>
		<comments>http://www.parentalcontrol.co.uk/2010/06/internetsafety-com-argues-xxx-domains-will-profit-adult-websites#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 11:49:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Holden</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After yesterday&#8217;s report on how pornographic websites are to be assigned a .xxx domain, InternetSafety.com has announced that the new policy will actually double the avenues available to access adult content online and fail to provide the claimed filtering benefits.
Under the ICANN guidelines, sites with adult content are not required to purchase a domain ending in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pakistan to monitor popular websites for unsuitable content</title>
		<link>http://www.parentalcontrol.co.uk/2010/06/pakistan-to-monitor-popular-websites-for-unsuitable-content</link>
		<comments>http://www.parentalcontrol.co.uk/2010/06/pakistan-to-monitor-popular-websites-for-unsuitable-content#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 15:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Holden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Web filtering]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Officials in Pakistan are to begin monitoring websites such as Google, Yahoo, YouTube, Amazon, MSN and Bing for content that could be offensive to Muslims, blocking access to any links that are deemed inappropriate.
The move follows the outrage that was caused when Facebook hosted a blasphemous competition to draw pictures of Muhammad, although the site isn&#8217;t actually [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Adult websites to be assigned .xxx domain</title>
		<link>http://www.parentalcontrol.co.uk/2010/06/adult-websites-to-be-assigned-xxx-domain</link>
		<comments>http://www.parentalcontrol.co.uk/2010/06/adult-websites-to-be-assigned-xxx-domain#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:46:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Holden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Unsuitable content]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pornographic websites will soon all be assigned domain names ending in .xxx, after receiving the go ahead from ICANN, the Internet Corporation of Assigned Names and Numbers.
The decision is favoured by many as it will make it easier to filter or block adult content - good news for parents protecting their children online.
According to Internet Pornography Statistics, the word“sex” is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mobile phones used to get past China&#8217;s Internet censors</title>
		<link>http://www.parentalcontrol.co.uk/2010/06/mobile-phones-used-to-get-past-chinas-internet-censors</link>
		<comments>http://www.parentalcontrol.co.uk/2010/06/mobile-phones-used-to-get-past-chinas-internet-censors#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Jun 2010 09:00:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Sarah Holden</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Web filtering]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[china]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[CNN reports that the mobile web in China has loopholes where content could go under the radar of government censors, analysts say.
&#8220;It could be anything else the government normally frowns upon or does not consider healthy, which could be political content to pornographic content,&#8221; said Mark Natkin, managing director of Beijing-based Marbridge Consulting, a market [...]]]></description>
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