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CIPA Trial Comes to a Close

Posted by michael on from the going-for-the-gold dept.

Cossie writes "As the latest major case on library/internet censorship comes to a close, CNET News has an article up summarizing the court battle over the CIPA (Children's Internet Protection Act). It's a decent summary of the case, including several quotes by judges commenting on the case." See our story from when the suit was filed describing the issues at stake.

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  1. Re:I'm stumped by jlower · · Score: 2, Funny

    Since when do kids need to be lured to do things they shouldn't?

  2. CIPA means PUSSY in Polish by Shiny+Metal+S. · · Score: 3, Funny

    The Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA), which supporters view as the government's best shot yet at reining in online smut, requires public libraries to install filtering software on all computers or lose federal technology funding.

    Kinda ironic acronym for Children's Internet Protection Act, fighting for censorship of porn. I mean, if I had something like this in Poland, I wouldn't be able to read about CIPA!

    I think that if you want to censor offensive informations, you shouldn't choose a name which is itself offensive in different language, unless you want to be censored as well...

    Children's Internet Protection Act - it's the funniest thing I read today! Thank you CIPA, you made my day!

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    ~shiny
    WILL HACK FOR $$$