Science and Technology
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- Money drives the digital divide - Jun. 20, 2000
- The rich aren't only getting richer, a new report finds they're also getting wired.
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- The Analog Divide: Technology Practices in Public Education
- Research article on the digital divide and infrastructure design in Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). Also available in PDF.
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- Urban Ed, Inc.
- Washington DC area start-up nonprofit organization offering computer science training to community members.
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- Cyber Petrol
- Form to find out in an URL is in the Cyber Patrol blacklist. Mirrors of The Breaking of Cyber Patrol 4 and How to Disable Cyber Patrol.
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- Cybersitter
- Gunnar Weygold's story of how Solid Oak Software tried to shut his account down for using their online Cybersitter submission form.
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- Cybersitter Bans All Wiccan/Pagan Websites
- Cybersitter blocks some pagan sites completely. Other sites that contain words like "pagan," "Wicca," or "witch" are either censored or blocked. The software also prevents the use of pagan-related words in search engines.
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- Cybersitter Petition Page
- A petition to boycott Solid Oak Software Inc.'s Cybersitter program. Currently this program is designed to block out Wiccan, Pagan, and Satanist websites.
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- Filters and Filtering
- American Library Association's policies, statements, and links regarding filtering in libraries.
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- Seth Finkelstein's Anticensorware Investigations
- Investigations of censorware ("filtering") programs by the 2001 EFF Pioneer Award winner who first decrypted censorware blacklists and was the chief programmer for Censorware Project.
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- Seth Finkelstein's Censorware Essays
- Several essays and reports on filtering software from one of the founders of the Censorware Project.
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- The Story of CPHack
- Background on lawsuit by Mattel and Microsystems to ban program to decrypt Cyber Patrol 4 blacklist, including mirror and links to over 50 news articles.
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- International Food Policy Research Institute
- Promotes sustainable agricultural practices to preserve the environment and help feed humanity. Provides research, data sets, and other informational resources.
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- International Service for the Acquisition of Agri-Biotech Applications (ISAAA)
- Mission is to contribute to poverty alleviation by increasing crop productivity and income generation, particularly for resource-poor farmers, and to bring about a safer environment and more sustainable development.
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- Open Letter to Monsanto's Robert Shapiro: Will Biotech Feed the World?
- A rebuttal to Monsanto's claims that GE will feed the world, from Action Aid, a relief charity - showing that in fact GE technology will have the opposite effect.
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- Spam Free Washington
- Home site of the anti-spam movement in Washington state. Discusses Washington State House Bill 2752 which deals with regulating junk e-mail. Has links to the legislation itself. Links to Spam resources. Good source for others who want ideas on how to limit junk e-mail in their home states.