On Wednesday, the government lost its final attempt to revive a federal law intended to protect children from sexual material and other objectionable content on the Internet.

By Madelyn Pennino Beware of journeys into cyberspace. That's the message Frederick Lane, an author and expert on Internet and privacy issues, had for students at Elizabethtown College Wednesday.

By MICHAEL HIMOWITZ When we installed one of the first commercial porn filters on a PC almost a decade ago, its attempts to clean up the Web were often hilarious.

By Ian Urbina Associated Press A federal judge in Philadelphia struck down a 1998 law Thursday that made it a crime for Web sites to allow children to gain access to material deemed "harmful." The ruling is the second major setback in federal efforts to control Internet pornography. The U.S.

By Maryclaire Dale PHILADELPHIA - More than a decade after Congress first tried to police the Internet for pornography, a federal judge cast doubt Thursday on whether the government can craft such a law without restricting free speech.