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US Army & Saudi Arabia & Oz
Concern over inappropriate material prompts Army to restrict Web
access (Silicon Valley/AP)
The Army is installing software at more than 100 military posts
worldwide to prevent employees from viewing pornography and other
inappropriate material.
The Army said the $1.8 million purchase of Web-filtering software
from San Diego-based Websense Inc. is intended to prevent some
200,000 Army personnel from accessing porn, gambling and other sites
prohibited on government computers. But the purchase comes as the
Army struggles with the problem of sexual harassment in its ranks.
http://www.siliconvalley.com/docs/news/tech/064742.htm
Saudi Arabia to ban 200,000 Web sites (Salon-AP)
Saudi Arabia will use new, advanced equipment to block access to
200,000 Internet sites it considers offensive, doubling the number of
sites already restricted, a Saudi official said Sunday.
"We are blocking sites on a daily basis and the new campaign will
begin soon," said Ebrahim al-Fareeh, Internet supervisor at the King
Abdulaziz City for Science and Technology, which filters all Internet
traffic to the kingdom.
http://www.salon.com/tech/wire/2001/04/30/saudi_arabia/index.html
Internet subscribers up, slight fall in service providers - ABS
There were 3.9 million Internet subscribers registered in Australia
at the end of the December quarter 2000, up from 3.8 million in the
previous quarter, the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) reported
in its second quarterly survey of Internet service providers,
released today.
http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/ABS%40.nsf/dddcf05472f88677ca2568b5007b8615/2052999851baa329ca256a3e00080daf!OpenDocument
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