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...March 15, the Mattel toy company and its subsidiary Microsystems Inc., asked a federal court in Massachusetts to prohibit two young men in Sweden and Canada from explaining to the world how their product, the Web-censorship filter Cyberpatrol, works. The Canadian and Swedish programmers took apart the Cyberpatrol program to figure out how it stored the lists of websites that Cyberpatrol blocks. Cyberpatrol distributes that list in encrypted form, scrambled so that no consumers who purchase the product can tell exactly what the censor they have installed is censoring...
...bullying worked. The foreign service providers "cooperated," shutting down the programmers' websites. Skala and Jansson surrendered within days, giving Microsystems and Mattel all rights in their program, thus allowing it to be suppressed. Mattel is now seeking to have the judge in Massachusetts prohibit--in contempt of the injunction Skala and Jansson agreed to--any website in the world from distributing the information Skala and Jansson developed concerning Cyberpatrol...
...Internet, censorship is increasingly a private rather than public function. Legislators, such as Senator John S. McCain (R-Ariz.), who advocate requiring public libraries and other entities receiving federal funds to install "filtering" software are--deliberately or not--working to create a privatized censorship structure in which companies like Mattel do the censoring...
...Windows computers, but could also theoretically be used to make unauthorized copies of those DVDs. The Recording Industry Association of America is suing to prohibit distribution of Napster, a program for sharing MP3 music files used by hundreds of thousands of mostly young music lovers around the world. And Mattel, a company that makes products only young people use, is bullying their own market, trying to prohibit criticism of the censorware they sell adults to control young people's reading...
JILL BARAD Mattel CEO steps down after flagging sales. Time for the new Golden Parachute Barbie...