Virginia passes law requiring filters on public library computers

Forces?
Original paragraph in story: (emphasis via italics added)

The laws in Virginia and Utah are based on the 2000 Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA), a federal law that forces libraries to install filtering software or lose crucial funding from the Library Services and Technology Act and the e-rate program, which provides technology discounts to schools and public libraries. Virginia’s bill provides $190,000 to help pay for the installation of library filters.

Modified version #1
The laws in Virginia and Utah are based on the 2000 Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA), a federal law that requires libraries to install filtering software or lose crucial funding from the Library Services and Technology Act and the e-rate program, which provides technology discounts to schools and public libraries. Virginia’s bill provides $190,000 to help pay for the installation of library filters.

Modified version #2
The laws in Virginia and Utah are based on the 2000 Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA), a federal law that compels libraries to install filtering software or lose crucial funding from the Library Services and Technology Act and the e-rate program, which provides technology discounts to schools and public libraries. Virginia’s bill provides $190,000 to help pay for the installation of library filters.

How is this legal?
According to this article from American Libraries, January 1999:

“Thanksgiving came early for freespeech advocates in Loudoun County, Virginia, who won a First Amendment lawsuit November 23 that bars Loudoun County (Va.) Library from requiring Internet filters on all computers at all times as a method of restricting pornography and other material deemed harmful to minors (AL, May 1998, p. 26). Hours after the decision was handed down, board members suspended Internet service in order to revise the library’s policy. They approved new guidelines by a vote of 6-2 on December 1 and officials resumed cyberservice two days later.

The revised policy states that all Internet terminals must have privacy screens, adults must sign an acceptable-use policy before choosing between blocked and unblocked workstations, and parents must give written permission before youngsters can log on (although they can surf freely if their folks permit it). However, Director Doug Henderson emphasized to American Libraries, “The default is unfiltered.”

In her summary judgment, U.S. District Judge Leonie Brinkema wrote that the age-neutral “Policy on Internet Sexual Harassment” that was enacted in October 1997 “offends the guarantee of free speech in the First Amendment and is, therefore, unconstitutional.” Brinkema took particular exception to LCL’s reliance on LogOn Data Corporation’s X-Stop software because the manufacturer doesn’t disclose its blocking criteria. A library “cannot avoid its constitutional obligation by contracting out its decision making to a private entity,” she wrote.”

So now that the governor wants filters, it’s suddenly not unconstitutional?