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.

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Freedom of speech

[HanzoSan]

Freedom of speech is protected by the fact that you can say anything you want online, meaning you can send any 1s and 0s you want out, but what you recieve, who says censorship is unconstitutional if the school agrees to it?

I think this is pretty fair to me, I dont really think public schools and libraries should have access to the true internet.

Filters do not block access to the internet, it filters, like it says, and I think its good to filter kids from the net as a whole, because a library or school should not decide if a kid can or cant access the unfiltered internet, this is a parents job.

I do think however the law should be adapted to work in a more realistic way, an Adult with ID should be able to access the unfiltered internet. If I go with my adult library card I should be able to access the whole internet. If I am in college, in an adult library, I should have access to the whole net including porn sites.

I agree with the purpose of this law, I just dont like the solution.