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Trial Begins Over Library Censorship

Posted by timothy on from the it-starts-with-a-smidgeon dept.

Justen writes: "CBS has a story on the Philadelphia trial over the Children's Internet Protection Act, signed by President Clinton in 2000. This is the first challenge to come to trial, challenging the act which aimed to censor pornography and other "inappropriate" websites in libraries and other government-subsidized public Internet access-points. The big shocker? The challenge has the support of a large number (3,000) of libraries, librarians, and library patrons."

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  1. Republican on board too! by molo · · Score: 4, Interesting

    * 2002-03-25 16:30:16 First Challenge to CIPA (yro,censorship) (rejected)

    From the NY Times article:

    "The coalition of plaintiffs includes the American Library Association, the American Civil Liberties Union and Jeffrey L. Pollock, a Republican Congressional candidate who favored mandatory filtering until he discovered that his own campaign's Web site was blocked by one of the most popular filtering programs."

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