Supreme Court to Hear CIPA Case

Ruger writes "The Supreme Court of the United States will "decide if public libraries can be forced to install software blocking sexually explicit Web sites," according to this article from the Associated Press. US lawmakers have passed three laws to 'protect' children from Internet pornography, but the Court struck down the first and blocked the second from taking effect. 'A three-judge federal panel ruled the Children's Internet Protection Act violates the First Amendment because the filtering programs also block sites on politics, health, science and other non-pornographic topics.'" Our previous story on this ongoing case will bring you up to speed on the issues.

Forget porn filters...

[Dareth]

if they overtun the need for filters, maybe than can mandate plastic keyboard covers!!!

Re:They will keep trying

[foistboinder]

you know what? schools and libraries dont carry "Jugs" magazine, so why should they allow porno to be displayed on the machines?

When I was in college, the reason the college library didn't have Playboy was because they tended to get stolen, it had nothing to do with content. Maybe this is true for some public libraries, too.

Re:We all pine for Judge Borke

[Anonymous Coward]

Waye toe goe, Mr. Quayle, nice try, but the man's name is 'Bork'.

Re:waste of money!

[M.C. Hampster]

the bush administration should not be wasting our tax dollars...

Yeah, how dare that ol' meanie administration actually tries to enforce laws! Boohoo!

Re:Censoring porn vs. Censoring everything.

[jumpingfred]

I always wanted to write the nipple detecting software.

Re:There's only one question...

[aridhol]

Just like smoking and non-smoking sections.

Having smoking and non-smoking sections in the restaurant is the same as having pissing and non-pissing sections in the pool.

Politicians

[Cheese Cracker]

How about them passing some laws that protect the internet against politicians?

Damn Straight!

[Herkum01]

Thats right you heard it here first! I believe that kids should not being going to the library and looking at boobies on the internet. I am an old fashion person and believe that kids should learn about sex the old fashion way, on the street! It is important that kids learn about this from their friends as lies and half-truths told by their equally ignorant friends.

God knows the parents aren't going to it, and the sex education that comes from schools is all about scaring the living bejesus out of kids with cancore sores and HIV epidemics. Remember the old-fashioned ways are still the best ways, make sure you kid is out at the street corner getting the education that he will need to get through life.

Re:Downright silly

[Document]

Never slip into a pornographic site by accident? Heh, when I was in high school I was cruising the net looking for pictures of the band Weezer. I hit a geocities website that shot me off to a homosexual pornographic site. As soon as I closed down the windows (and waiting for the waves of nausea to pass) I got up and left the computer alone. (The thought still makes me never want to surf again).

Now here is the part that is unrelated to the topic at hand but still is a cool twist to the story. That month my dad's credit card number was stolen and a person used the credit card to join this site called "Theatre of Porn" or something along those lines. When my dad looked at the cache he saw the pictures that popped up on that website. Boy did it take me several girlfriends and many (strategically) placed Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Editions to finally convince him that I wasn't gay.