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Supreme Court to Hear CIPA Case
Ruger writes "The Supreme Court of the United States will "decide if public libraries can be forced to install software blocking sexually explicit Web sites," according to this article from the Associated Press. US lawmakers have passed three laws to 'protect' children from Internet pornography, but the Court struck down the first and blocked the second from taking effect. 'A three-judge federal panel ruled the Children's Internet Protection Act violates the First Amendment because the filtering programs also block sites on politics, health, science and other non-pornographic topics.'" Our previous story on this ongoing case will bring you up to speed on the issues.
The cesnsorship wont stop the problem you just described. AS a matter of fact, it will make it worse. I have no problem with reaonable requests to not leave goatsex open on the computer when i log off. Fair enough. But when im told I have to ask permisson to TURN OFF filtering on machines that destroy my first amendment rights, on equipment MY TAX MONEY paid for, fuck you. I will do my damndest to remove that software and reset the background picture to nude pictures of earnet borgnine.
How bout a simple check box when you log on?
I am an adult, therefore i wish to turn off censorship on this machine. yes/no. Yeah, youll have 13 year olds looking at neekid women. SO what? By the time their old enough to be interested in it, theyre old enough to look at it.
(No, im not a parent. Keep your kids out of the library if they cant behave themselves)
All Troll + "offtopic" mods are meta moderated as "Unfair", because you abused the system.
When I was a kid (that is from 6 years on), I was allowed to read all the pr0n magazines my father bought, right in front of my mother (all she'd say was "that's not nice looking"). So, over time, pr0n didn't have any special attractiveness for me, and I never went out of my way in order to find pr0n - that is, until I got interested in really kinky stuff (besides which goatsee.cx is really tame)...