In Canada, some cultural groups are openly eyeing content filters as a mechanism to adapt Canadian content rules to the online environment, while others have expressed strong support for legal rules that force ISPs to accept heightened "responsibility" for the conduct of their subscribers.
Many of these same robust device management tools can also be made available to end consumers, offering centralized controls to enable parents or a designated device admin to apply content filters, set budgets, manage apps on multiple devices or even locate and wipe a lost device.
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Viacom has sued Google for insufficiently policing its copyrighted content, and both MySpace and DailyMotion have recently announced tighter filters on their content.
Viacom (nyse: VIA - news - people ) has sued Google for insufficiently policing its copyrighted content, and both MySpace and DailyMotion have recently announced tighter filters on their content.
Ann Forte, a spokeswoman for the New York City school system, said the Microsoft email service includes automatic filters for inappropriate content, which Google couldn't provide.
Based on innovative semantic technology, Jinni filters the universe of content through the lens of the user's personal moods and tastes.
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MySpace says the new software will ensure that when copyright holders ask for a video to be removed from the site's user-generated content, the site's filters will prevent users from uploading it again.
"The parents decide what values their kids receive, " says marketing VP Glenn Zawicki, who adds that the company filters out offensive material and that poor content is nixed through customer ratings.
Godtube, a user-generated content site that focuses on Christian-friendly videos and filters out profane or sexual references, became the single fastest-growing site on the Web just after launching in August, according to comScore Media Metrix.
Through algorithms, filters and other tools, Percolate scours the web and serves up content tailored to my specific areas of focus that I can review and easily share.
While he notes that not all crowdsourcing is bad, the need to pick and choose where it can be used effectively is ultimately up to the nebulous makers of content, and the average person is still in much the same position as always, in need of filters for aggregators of aggregations.
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