Editing Internet filter (section)

===Religious, anti-religious, and political censorship===
Many types of content-control software have been shown to block sites based on the religious and political leanings of the company owners. Examples include blocking several religious sites<ref>{{cite web|author=Kelly Wilson|url=http://hometown.aol.com/Mjolnir13/test.htm|title=Hometown Has Been Shutdown - People Connection Blog: AIM Community Network|website=[[AOL Hometown]]|date=2008-11-06|access-date=2009-10-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080509055959/http://hometown.aol.com/Mjolnir13/test.htm|archive-date=2008-05-09|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://members.tripod.com/~Trifold/NOTICE.html|title=Notice!!|website=Members.[[tripod.com]]|access-date=2009-10-25}}</ref> (including the Web site of the Vatican), many political sites, and homosexuality-related sites.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.glaad.org/media/archive_detail.php?id=103&|title=www.glaad.org/media/archive_detail.php?id=103&|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080607224912/http://www.glaad.org/media/archive_detail.php?id=103&|archive-date=June 7, 2008}}</ref> ''X-Stop'' was shown to block sites such as the [[Quaker Oats Company|Quaker]] web site, the [[National Journal of Sexual Orientation Law]], [[The Heritage Foundation]], and parts of [[The Ethical Spectacle]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.spectacle.org/cs/burt.html|title=The Mind of a Censor|website=Spectacle.org|access-date=2009-10-25}}</ref> CYBERsitter blocks out sites like [[National Organization for Women]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.spectacle.org/alert/peace.html|title=CYBERsitter: Where do we not want you to go today?|website=Spectacle.org|access-date=2009-10-25}}</ref> Nancy Willard, an academic researcher and attorney, pointed out that many U.S. public schools and libraries use the same filtering software that many Christian organizations use.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.csriu.org/onlinedocs/documents/religious2.html|title=See: Filtering Software: The Religious Connection|website=Csriu.org|access-date=2009-10-25|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080705102418/http://csriu.org/onlinedocs/documents/religious2.html|archive-date=2008-07-05|url-status=dead}}</ref> Cyber Patrol, a product developed by The Anti-Defamation League and Mattel's The Learning Company,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.adl.org/presrele/mise_00/3081-00.asp|title=See: ADL and The Learning Company Develop Educational Software|website=[[Anti-Defamation League]]|access-date=2011-08-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110209112430/http://www.adl.org/PresRele/Mise_00/3081-00.asp|archive-date=2011-02-09|url-status=dead}}</ref> has been found to block not only political sites it deems to be engaging in 'hate speech' but also human rights web sites, such as Amnesty International's web page about Israel and gay-rights web sites, such as glaad.org.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.peacefire.org/censorware/Cyber_Patrol|title=See: Cyber Patrol Examined|website=[[peacefire]].org|access-date=2011-08-26}}</ref>