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CIPA Before The Supreme Court

Posted by timothy on from the right-on-schedule dept.

Jim Tyre pointed out the excellent collection of links on censorware.net to coverage of yesterday's oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court about the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA), as promised by this story last month. There's also a link to the place where transcripts of the oral arguments will show up about three weeks from now.

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  1. How about parents raise their children... by axis-techno-geek · · Score: 3, Interesting
    Maybe congress could pass a law for that.

    Naw, that would make sense, better to have a third party to blame/sue when your child turns out to be a mass murderer/cult wacko.

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  2. Start with the parents... by telstar · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Kids will always be able to get to something that is available to their parents....
    The best way to handle questionable content is for parents to take an active role in their kids' upbringing, and teach them how to handle material that they will unquestionably come across online.

  3. Re:The CIPA is a sham by GabrielPreston · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It really is a problem that nobody can really devote the time and effort needed to making a 99.99% effective method that will remove ONLY things harmful to children. Because of this, other content and other sites will suffer, and even then, the smut that our nation is trying to protect children from still gets through. Company's like CyberNanny and SurfPatrol will benefit greatly from this act, but at what cost to the sites and people on the Internet that are now wrongfully blocked? Perhaps with the money that these companies will get from this, they can actually develop better ways to filter out the inappropriate material while not blocking any material that should be viewable. Who knows though? Only time will tell right now.

  4. Re:CIPA by MikeXpop · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Yeah, I agree. Kiddie porn and crashing planes into large skyscrapers are a God-given right.

    You're missing the point. Kiddie porn would be on the internet, and the internet is not supposed to be censored. Killing people/other terroist actions are still very much illegal and so is having sex with a minor. Building a website telling people how to make a bomb isn't illegal.

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  5. Re:Censorship is useless by tomhudson · · Score: 4, Interesting
    Would you be happy having your children (if you have any) seeing people having sex on the street?

    I'd rather they see sex on the street than killings on the street. We don't prevent kids from seeing over 7,000 violent acts on TV by the time they're adults (including rape and murder).

    Actually, this (sex on the street) happened on time ... a couple parked their convertible, with the top down, in front of my sisters' place, and started screwing. It was lunch time, and my niece came in and told us about it. We went outside and looked, and the couple only a pair of socks between them.

    Was my niece traumatized? No, she couldn't stop laughing about it. I'm sure that if it had been a killing, it would have had a much worse effect.

    So what did we (the adults) do? Told them to get a motel room (after we stopped laughing).