US Supreme Court Upholds CIPA 585
TheMatt writes "The US Supreme Court today has upheld CIPA, the law that required public schools and libraries to put internet filters on computers or lose federal funding. Quote: 'The court in a 5-4 decision ruled that the Children's Internet Protection Act does not violate the First Amendment, but that filters sometimes, do block informational Web sites.'"
The decision will be posted on the US Supreme Court website later today. The case is United States v. American Library Association, 02-361. We had covered this story before.
BLOCKED!!! (Score:2, Funny)
i fully agree (Score:5, Funny)
My run-in with this- (Score:5, Funny)
I was doing some work for a private religious school that had software of the CIPA type installed on their server, and it was preventing the students (grade schoolers) from doing their research.
The topic at hand was something on their favourite sports team. The CIPA type software had a default not to allow access to such things.
I looked into the config files, and modified the defaults to allow sports-type web pages to be accessed.
I decided to test this (with all the kiddies watching no less) by going to www.nfl.com
Lo and behold it worked, with the front page of the NFL talking about the suspension, and jail time, of a star player for drug use, rape and murder of his pregnant girlfriend....
perhaps those filters are in place for a reason?
Re:Decision wrong in slashdot post (Score:5, Funny)
Not so bad (Score:2, Funny)
Re:American Library Association's opinion (Score:2, Funny)
Filtered out (Score:3, Funny)
And will be promtly filtered out by most schools.
Can't have the kiddes reading about the Supremes with out some filtering and "contextual" information being provided/(force fed) to them. They might actualy start to think on thier own... ooooh, the evil that would ensue...
A teenager's perspective... (Score:2, Funny)
Re:"Can you please turn off the filters?" (Score:2, Funny)
I can just picture the browsing now.
"Hot sluts dying for your hard the c-word. These the w-words want to the f-word you until you can't walk!!"
Re:A loss for civil rights (Score:2, Funny)
by Gay Nigger (676904)...
Somehow that combination made me laugh...
Re:"Can you please turn off the filters?" (Score:2, Funny)