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Supreme Court to Hear CIPA Case

Posted by michael on from the justice-is-nearsighted dept.

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.

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  1. Escape From New World Order Futile +1, Patriotic by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic


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  2. Protect the children...right by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I could not really give a shit about this problem as longs as the US plans to hit Iraq kids with BOMBS - even though every other country in the world (forget UK, which is part of the US in this context) seems to disagree. It is about the time for your "leaders" to realize that they are not alone in this world.

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    I just heard some sad news on talk radio - video game character Mario Mario a.k.a. "Super Mario", was found dead in his NOA home this morning. There weren't any more details. I'm sure everyone in the Slashdot community will miss him - even if you didn't enjoy his video games, there's no denying his contributions to popular culture. Truly an Italian icon.

  4. you kow, i posted this. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    And now that i read it again, i dont know if its falmebait or not. Yall get a free one on this one moderators. ;)

  5. Re:Big deal by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Cool. I've never seen a -1:Insightful before.

    If you want to get a +5:Funny, quickly reply with:
    "You must be new here."

  6. Instead of threatening the libraries funding... by tassii · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    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?

    --
    "I drank what?" - Socrates