Editing Internet filter (section)

==Terminology==
The term "content control" is used on occasion by [[CNN]],<ref>{{cite news|url=http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/04/27/eyeonchina.internet|title=Young, angry … and wired - May 3, 2005|website=Edition.[[CNN]].com|date=3 May 2005|access-date=25 October 2009|archive-date=8 December 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091208042503/http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/asiapcf/04/27/eyeonchina.internet/|url-status=dead}}</ref> ''[[Playboy]]'' magazine,<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.multichannel.com/policy/playboy-preaches-control/12883|title=Playboy Preaches Control|first=R. Thomas|last=Umstead|newspaper=Multichannel News|date=20 May 2006|access-date=25 June 2013|archive-date=22 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130922193106/http://www.multichannel.com/policy/playboy-preaches-control/12883|url-status=dead}}</ref> the ''[[San Francisco Chronicle]]'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/news/archive/2002/10/25/financial1400EDT0155.DTL&type=printable|title=Web sites go blank to protest strict new Internet law|website=[[San Francisco Chronicle|sfgate.com]]|publisher=[[Associated Press]]|first=Daniel|last=Woolls|date=October 25, 2002|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030708220938/http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=%2Fnews%2Farchive%2F2002%2F10%2F25%2Ffinancial1400EDT0155.DTL&type=printable|archive-date=8 July 2003}}</ref> and ''[[The New York Times]]''.<ref>{{cite news|last=Bickerton|first=Derek|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1997/11/30/books/digital-dreams.html|title=Digital Dreams|newspaper=The New York Times|date=30 November 1997|access-date=25 October 2009}}</ref> However, several other terms, including "content filtering software", "web content filter", "filtering proxy servers", "secure web gateways", "[[censorware]]", "[[content security and control]]", "[[web filtering]] software", "content-censoring software", and "[[content-blocking]] software", are often used. "Nannyware" has also been used in both product marketing and by the media. Industry research company [[Gartner]] uses '''"secure web gateway"''' (SWG) to describe the market segment.<ref name="Gartner">{{cite web|url=http://www.gartner.com/it-glossary/secure-web-gateway|title=IT Glossary: Secure Web Gateway|website=[[gartner]].com|access-date=27 March 2012}}</ref>

Companies that make products that selectively [[block (internet)|block]] Web sites do not refer to these products as censorware, and prefer terms such as "Internet filter" or "URL Filter"; in the specialized case of software specifically designed to allow parents to monitor and restrict the access of their children, "parental control software" is also used. Some products log all sites that a user accesses and rates them based on content type for reporting to an "[[accountability partner]]" of the person's choosing, and the term [[accountability software]] is used. Internet filters, parental control software, and/or accountability software may also be combined into one product.

Those critical of such software, however, use the term "censorware" freely: consider the Censorware Project, for example.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://censorware.net|title=Censorware Project|website=censorware.net|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150620042654/http://www.censorware.net|archive-date=20 June 2015}}</ref> The use of the term "censorware" in editorials criticizing makers of such software is widespread and covers many different varieties and applications: [[Xeni Jardin]] used the term in a 9 March 2006 editorial in ''The New York Times,'' when discussing the use of American-made filtering software to suppress content in China; in the same month a high school student used the term to discuss the deployment of such software in his school district.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://159.54.226.83/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060319/COLUMN0203/603190309/1064|title=159.54.226.83/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060319/COLUMN0203/603190309/1064|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071019020114/http://159.54.226.83/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20060319%2FCOLUMN0203%2F603190309%2F1064|archive-date=19 October 2007}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://sethf.com/anticensorware/hearing_dc.php|title=DMCA 1201 Exemption Transcript, April 11 - Censorware|website=Sethf.com|date=11 April 2003|access-date=25 October 2009}}</ref>

In general, outside of editorial pages as described above, traditional newspapers do not use the term "censorware" in their reporting, preferring instead to use less overtly controversial terms such as "content filter", "content control", or "web filtering"; ''The New York Times'' and ''[[The Wall Street Journal]]'' both appear to follow this practice. On the other hand, Web-based newspapers such as [[CNET]] use the term in both editorial and journalistic contexts, for example "Windows Live to Get Censorware."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.techbeta.org/news/windows-live-to-get-censorware|title=Windows Live to get censorware - ZDNet.co.uk|website=news.[[ZDNet]].co.uk|date=14 March 2006|access-date=25 October 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081205010436/http://www.techbeta.org/news/windows-live-to-get-censorware|archive-date=5 December 2008|url-status=dead}}</ref>