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["Michael D. Thomas" <mdthomas AT mindspring.com>]

Good article on the recent ruling against CIPA... I esp. like the part where
the writer suggests that congress was snookered with a good ol' smoke n'
mirrors demo.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/25557.html

"Do we really want private companies deciding what the public is entitled to
know? Shall we reward them with tax dollars in exchange for putting blinders
on us in a public place? SurfControl blocked The Register in its entirety
because we ran a story explaining how to defeat its software. If they'll pull
a self-serving stunt like that, then what's to stop them blocking sites that
run news/editorial items like this one which merely criticizes their product
and corporate ethics? What's to stop them taking a kickback from another
company to block content critical of their products or corporate ethics? Their
banned URL lists are proprietary, and they'll take you to court for trying to
find out what's in those files. "

----- Original Message -----
From: <thomas AT tbeckett.com>
To: "InterNetWorkers" <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Friday, May 31, 2002 3:38 PM
Subject: [internetworkers] [Fwd: Library filtering law overturned]


> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40127-2002May31.html
>
> A three-
> judge panel ruled that the CIPA -- which requires public libraries
> receiving federal fundstoinstall filtering software on all public Internet