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.

Comments

Instead of threatening the libraries funding...

[tassii]

Why don't they crack down on all the email porn that is sent out? Its amazing the amount of porn spam that is sent to various email address with photos in it. I think a child is more likey to see that than go looking for it on the net.

Or perhaps finally creating the .xxx tld that all porn must be limited to?

THEN you could set up your parental controls to filter out the porn and not legitimate traffic. Hell.. think of all the money the registrars can make confiscating urls and reselling them?