Word: filtering
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Election Day, VNS exit poll data began to filter in to the news organizations...
Questions remain about voting "irregularities" in Florida, and how absentee ballots sent from overseas will affect the election. It could take up to 10 days for those ballots to filter in. In 1996, the 2,300 overseas ballots went mainly to the Republican nominee...
...schools, peer pressure and sexually explicit media are all conspiring to foreshorten childhood, with consequences that are still not well understood. "One of the big shocks during the whole Clinton debacle," says William Damon, director of Stanford's Center on Adolescence, "was that people were trying to filter out phrases like 'oral sex,' when in fact there were no eight-year-olds who didn't already know what that was." One result of these influences is that girls are wearing highly sexualized, adult clothing in middle school and below--even when they don't have adult bodies...
...politically, none of this matters. Filter software has become the cause du jour because it lays to rest nagging questions of content and responsibility--it is just a cover for our actual confusion, a whited sepulcher concealing the ugly fact that society hasn't yet dealt with the Internet's implications. In the old days, a flawed culture could be healed by dragging a bunch of network executives up to Capitol Hill and giving them a stern talking-to; through the democratized medium of the Internet, content can be distributed worldwide after it has been reviewed by only one moderator...
Linn said that these regulations are needed because children cannot filter, censor or effectively judge commercials...