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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.
if they overtun the need for filters, maybe than can mandate plastic keyboard covers!!!
I only look human.
My mother is a halfling and my dad is an ogre, so that makes me an Ogreling
you know what? schools and libraries dont carry "Jugs" magazine, so why should they allow porno to be displayed on the machines?
When I was in college, the reason the college library didn't have Playboy was because they tended to get stolen, it had nothing to do with content. Maybe this is true for some public libraries, too.
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Waye toe goe, Mr. Quayle, nice try, but the man's name is 'Bork'.
Yeah, how dare that ol' meanie administration actually tries to enforce laws! Boohoo!
Forget the whales - save the babies.
I can't say that I don't give a fuck. I've just run out of fuck to give.
Never slip into a pornographic site by accident? Heh, when I was in high school I was cruising the net looking for pictures of the band Weezer. I hit a geocities website that shot me off to a homosexual pornographic site. As soon as I closed down the windows (and waiting for the waves of nausea to pass) I got up and left the computer alone. (The thought still makes me never want to surf again).
Now here is the part that is unrelated to the topic at hand but still is a cool twist to the story. That month my dad's credit card number was stolen and a person used the credit card to join this site called "Theatre of Porn" or something along those lines. When my dad looked at the cache he saw the pictures that popped up on that website. Boy did it take me several girlfriends and many (strategically) placed Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Editions to finally convince him that I wasn't gay.