David Burt, usually so talkative (http://www.politechbot.com/p-03012.html), was uncharacteristically silent today as he repeatedly referred my questions about what was in the secret filings to N2H2's hired guns, who wouldn't even say how many pages were in their emergency filing. Politech archive on CIPA (the federal filtering law in question): http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=cipa -Declan --- http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51309,00.html Porn-Filter Judge Boots Public By Declan McCullagh (declanat_private) 4:00 p.m. March 25, 2002 PST PHILADELPHIA -- A trio of federal judges abruptly kicked members of the public out of a library filtering trial on Monday, saying they feared confidential smut-blocking techniques would be disclosed. Filterware vendor N2H2 filed an emergency request to intervene in the trial, which began Monday in Federal District court. Company officials argued that expert witnesses could leak proprietary data about how the company trawls for additions to its catalog of off-color, gambling, prurient and other verboten websites. N2H2's motion created an unlikely pair of allies: Both the ACLU, which filed the lawsuit, and the U.S. Justice Department, which is defending it, opposed closing the doors to the 16th-floor courtroom. But Edward Becker, the chief judge of the Third Circuit Court of Appeals, said he and the other two judges were granting N2H2's request. N2H2's products include firewalls that reject connections to inappropriate sites. [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Politech dinner in SF on 4/16: http://www.politechbot.com/events/cfp2002/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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