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The top shelf.

The writer discusses censorship on the Internet. Most of the methods of blocking data to date can be placed in one of three categories: software that consults a list of known sites and blocks them according to criteria selected by the PC owner; software that searches for suspect words to decide whe...

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Published in:Economist Vol. 339; pp. 84 - 85
Format: Article
Published: Economist Newspaper Limited May 18 1996
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