David Burt at the Supreme Court: http://www.mccullagh.org/image/d30-34/david-burt-n2h2.html --- Subject: Re: FC: Responses to Supreme Court upholding library filtering-funding law Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 15:32:13 -0700 From: <dburtat_private> To: <declanat_private> Declan, Remember the article you wrote when you were with Wired about the Mainstream Loudoun ruling: "A key witness for the county was David Burt, the founder of filteringfacts.org and a public librarian in Lake Oswego, Oregon. The judge found Burt's written testimony not only unpersuasive, but damaging to the case he was trying to make. "Burt's own statements indicate that such problems are practically nonexistent," Brinkema said, noting that when Burt emailed thousands of librarians asking them for information about sexual harassment complaints, it "did not yield a single serious response." "Library Filters Must Go," Wired, by Declan McCullagh, Nov. 23, 1998 Story location: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,16455,00.html Did you happen to catch my citation in footnote 1 of the majority opinion ALA v. U.S.? "Upon discovering these problems,Congress became concerned that the E-rate and LSTA programs were facilitating access to illegal and harmful pornography. S.Rep.No.105 -226,p.5 (1998).Congress learned that adults "us [e ]library computers to access pornography that is then exposed to staff,passersby,and children," and that "minors acces [s ] child and adult pornography in libraries."1 1 The Children 's Internet Protection Act:Hearing on S.97 before the Senate Committee on Commerce,Science,and Transportation,106th Cong.,1st Sess.,49 (1999)(prepared statement of Bruce Taylor,President and Chief Counsel,National Law Center for Children and Families).See also Obscene Material Available Via The Internet:Hearing before the Subcommittee on Telecommunications,Trade,and Consumer Protection of the House Committee on Commerce,106th Cong., 2d Sess.1,27 (2000)(citing D.Burt,Dangerous Access,2000 Edition: Uncovering Internet Pornography in America ' s Libraries (2000)) (noting more than 2,000 incidents of patrons,both adults and minors, using library computers to view online pornography,including obscenity and child pornography). http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/23jun20030800/www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/02pdf/02-361.pdf --David ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ Like Politech? Make a donation here: http://www.politechbot.com/donate/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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