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US Supreme Court Upholds CIPA
TheMatt writes "The US Supreme Court today has upheld CIPA, the law that required public schools and libraries to put internet filters on computers or lose federal funding. Quote: 'The court in a 5-4 decision ruled that the Children's Internet Protection Act does not violate the First Amendment, but that filters sometimes, do block informational Web sites.'"
The decision will be posted on the US Supreme Court website later today. The case is United States v. American Library Association, 02-361. We had covered this story before.
By the CIPA!
sulli
RTFJ.
kids should be beating off at home in their bedrooms, not in the library.
pr0n - keeping monitor glass spotless since 1981.
probably off topic.
I was doing some work for a private religious school that had software of the CIPA type installed on their server, and it was preventing the students (grade schoolers) from doing their research.
The topic at hand was something on their favourite sports team. The CIPA type software had a default not to allow access to such things.
I looked into the config files, and modified the defaults to allow sports-type web pages to be accessed.
I decided to test this (with all the kiddies watching no less) by going to www.nfl.com
Lo and behold it worked, with the front page of the NFL talking about the suspension, and jail time, of a star player for drug use, rape and murder of his pregnant girlfriend....
perhaps those filters are in place for a reason?
So rise up, all ye lost ones, as one, we'll claw the clouds.
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"I'm not bright. Big words confuse me. But Wanda loves me and that should be enough for you." - Cosmo
This law only keeps unapproved information out of the hands of poor kids, who probably won't need it and can't be trusted to use it responsibly.
I know the ALA Conference is happening there and all, but was anyone else kind of freaked to see the American Library Association issuing this release from Canada? It's like they left the nation in response.
Fortran programmer...oh yeah. Array math for life!
And will be promtly filtered out by most schools.
Can't have the kiddes reading about the Supremes with out some filtering and "contextual" information being provided/(force fed) to them. They might actualy start to think on thier own... ooooh, the evil that would ensue...
I remember writing my high school senior research paper. My topic was affirmative action. The www.hornyteens.com web site sure was a big help. I don't think I could have finished the paper without it!!! Down with censorship!!!
They shoudl just change the filters so that bad words come up as "the f-word" or "the a-word" or "the c-word" or something.
I can just picture the browsing now.
"Hot sluts dying for your hard the c-word. These the w-words want to the f-word you until you can't walk!!"
Paizurishitetai desu ka?
A loss for civil rights
by Gay Nigger (676904)...
Somehow that combination made me laugh...
"vast minority" Hey, is that like the people who voted for George Dubya? :)