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Frye Details How Cyber-Stalker Lured His Prey

By Karen Shugart ● Uncategorized ● August 1, 2004

Arkansas reporter Cathy Frye was haunted by the story of 13-year-old girl who was murdered by a man she met on online. The series she wrote about the case won awards and reached readers with the kind of force she is always seeking.

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New Version of Nuremberg Files Yanked off Web

By Frederick Clarkson ● Uncategorized ● December 5, 2003

An Internet service provider yanked a threatening anti-choice Web site in late November as Women’s eNews was investigating its latest incarnation. If the site resurfaces, some see a fresh round of legal battles.

Web Opens Window on Eating Disorders

By Elizabeth Zwerling ● Health & Science ● September 16, 2003

Young women looking on the Internet for help with their eating disorders are instead finding a proliferation of sites that encourage their unhealthy habits. Some researchers, however, say the sites offer a therapeutic “window” on a baffling disease.

Anti-Choice Groups Cybersquat to Promote Cause

By Dakota Smith ● Uncategorized ● August 5, 2003

Anti-choice activists are flocking to the Internet in a pervasive and sometimes illegal attempt to bring attention to their cause.

Sex-Spam Becomes More Prevalent, Pornographic

By Dakota Smith ● Uncategorized ● April 25, 2003

More e-mail inboxes are flooded with sexually explicit spam, yet most agree little can be done to limit the annoyance. To date, lawmakers, lobby groups and Internet service providers have not be able to reach agreement on preventative tactics.

Women’s Media Transformed by Internet

By Sheila Gibbons ● Arts & Culture ● January 29, 2003

Online women’s publications are booming, while print publications are struggling or folding. The trend is a mixed blessing: Online publications reach more and cost less to produce, but historians worry that online publications might not be archived.

Internet Filters Screen Out Health Information

By Katrina Woznicki ● Employment ● December 12, 2002

Internet filters designed to block pornographic Web sites also prevent users from accessing health information online up to a quarter of the time. Experts say the filters are bad news for teen-agers and low-income people who rely on the Net.

African Tech Mavens Take on Gender Digital Divide

By Shauna Curphey ● Uncategorized ● October 6, 2002

African businesswomen who have found success in the United States are giving back to their homelands. They’re bringing the Internet and other computer technology to those who use it least: their counterparts in Africa.

High Court to Rule on Internet Censorship

By Sandy Rapp ● Uncategorized ● January 9, 2002

The Supreme Court will rule on a federal law that claims to protect children from Internet smut. However, the law is unnecessary–child pornography is illegal now–and the law limits access to health information vital to women.

Appeals Court to Rehear Nuremberg Web Site Case

By Frederick Clarkson ● Crime & Law ● October 11, 2001

The most controversial case about the limits of speech on the Internet will be reheard by a federal appeals court. The challenged Web site once featured a “deadly dozen” list of abortion providers. Now, its text discusses nuclear blackmail and more.