Photos from mccullagh.org: http://www.mccullagh.org/theme/cipa-trial-spring02.html Politech archive on CIPA (the federal filtering law in question): http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=cipa --- http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51501,00.html Full Assault on Filter Software By Declan McCullagh (declanat_private) 6:15 a.m. April 3, 2002 PST PHILADELPHIA -- To librarian Anne Lipow, filtering software isn't merely a bad idea. Lipow told a panel of federal judges on Tuesday that Congress' attempt to force the use of anti-smutware in public libraries is positively Stalinist. "It smacks of authoritarianism," said Lipow, a library consultant in Berkeley, California, recalling that the former Soviet Union required patrons to acquire signatures from a local official before they could obtain certain materials. That's a not-so-oblique reference to the Children's Internet Protection Act, which is being challenged in court in a trial that began here last week. The law allows librarians to permit access to blocked websites -- but only after they review it and judge whether an adult patron has a "bona fide research" purpose. The filters cannot be overriden for anyone under 18 years old. [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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