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

Re:They will keep trying

[night_flyer]

you know what? schools and libraries dont carry "Jugs" magazine, so why should they allow porno to be displayed on the machines?

funny....

[adamb0mb]

Does anyone else think it would be funny if a guy walked into the library... and started 'doing-his-bidniz'?

Why else would you look at porn? If you don't get to get your jollies from it... its just torture to look at.

Geeks have children?

[PseudoThink]

I don't think so. And yet this will still undoubtedly incite all the usual comments about censorship, pr0n, and beowulf clusters.

Perhaps more useful:

SIPA - Slashdot Internet Protection Act (protecting old web servers from being Slashdotted)

not to be confused with

SIPA - Slashdot Information Protection Act (protecting Slashdotters from trolls and redundant, uninteresting, or obvious posts, like this one.)

Double standard?

[NeoSkandranon]

There are people of legal age that attend highschool (18 in my neck of the woods) yet no one is bawling for the right to look at porn in schools. how is this any different?

Re:There's only one question...

[Reality Master 101]

A right that you have to beg for isnt a right, its a privelage.

Yeah, and you also have to ask permission to see rare books, and to climb ladders to get at the tall shelves. And of course, let's not forget about midgets who can't reach the tall shelves.

By your logic, any abridgement of "instant access" is an abridgement of your rights, which is just silly.

Libraries need to be restructured.

[bstadil]

Libraries in the US is a joke and a huge waste of money as it is today. Did you know there is 313,000 libraries in the US, 3 times the numbers of Mc'Donalds and their average book lending rate is 3 (your read this right) Three books per hour. At that cost level it would be as cheap just to hand out the books, Give them away.

Why do we ned to have internet access for children? If they are not deemed old enought by the parents to navigate the interned sans censure, Hand them a book to read probably better. If they need computer skills make an effort to put the books that is in the libraries on to the net and give them access to that portion via a closed Library network, Using Intennet protocol obviously.

Learning an issue? We can hire a lot of reading teachers for what we spend on feel good libraries.