Supreme Court to Decide Internet Library Filters

J.B. Bryant, and many others passed along word that The U.S. Supreme Court agreed to decide whether it violates free-speech rights to require public libraries to install filtering software on personal computers in an effort to protect children from Internet pornography.
AP Story From Yahoo! has more, along with Wired, and The ALA.

Seth Finkelstein also adds:

\”
By the way, it\’s important to keep in mind that while almost
all news coverage will tout this as filtering pornography, censorware
also usually

bans anonymizers, language translations sites,
google caches ,
even the archive
WayBack Machine.
This is because sites such represent a threat, a
LOOPHOLE
in censorware\’s control. This overbroadness
has been a factor in the
CIPA decision. \”

November 12, 2002 by Uncategorized 0

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