Law Limiting Internet in Libraries Challenged
- 2002/3/25
This morning in a Philadelphia courtroom, a coalition of libraries, Web sites and library patrons will begin nine days of hearings in which they will ask three federal judges to help decide a seemingly simple question: What is a library for?
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Shhhh! We're Trying To Surf
- 2001/3/31
The Children's Internet Protection Act, passed in 2000, requires schools and libraries to use technologies like Internet filters to block sites that are obscene, contain child pornography or are "harmful to minors." Librarians, patrons and Web sites blocked by such filters, with the American Civil Liberties Union and other groups, are arguing that the law unconstitutionally abridges speech rights and that filtering technology is not capable of performing the fine-tuned blocking the law describes.
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