Censorware

Censorware is about control. I say that repeatedly. The biggest public-relations victory the censorware-makers ever achieved, was to get censorware called a "filter", and to have that control described as "filtering". It's not mere partisanship. Rather, the terms "filter" and "filtering" channel the discussion into a thought-pattern of extracting the assumed, bad, even toxic, material, leaving a purified result. As opposed to censorware, which concerns what's required to control a person, to prevent them reading prohibited content. I have a sinking feeling I'm going to be saying this over and over again in the run-up to the Supreme Court CIPA arguments.

Seth Finkelstein's Infothought blog (Wikipedia, Google, censorware, and an inside view of net-politics) - Syndicate site (subscribe, RSS)