Supreme Court to Review Internet Censorship Case

[MistressValerie]

Supreme Court to Consider Internet Filtering

The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on March 5 in the constitutional challenge to the Children's Internet Protection Act. A lower court struck down the law, which requires libraries receiving federal Internet subsidies to install filtering software on all computers. EPIC is co-counsel in the case and maintains a CIPA Litigation page. Also see EPIC's Filters & Freedom 2.0, a collection of essays on the free speech impact of content control technology. (Mar. 4)

http://www.epic.org

 

[sole seeker]

Thanks for the heads-up Valerie.

By the way, those hands in you signature are beautiful. Not your's by any chance, are they?

 

[MistressValerie]

Hi, and thanks, Sole Seeker -- the hands are not mine (alas) but are public domain art from Yahoo Galleries.

I also forgot to mention earlier that from 10-20% of US adults -- mostly urban poor -- obtain their primary or only Internet access from public terminals. The CIPA law claims to protect "children" but in fact limits ALL users of public terminals, regardless of age, to material suitable for young children.

Our MSN group has a copy of the complete text of the original appeals court ruling, in the "Documents" section, as a zip file of about 150kB. We will post any new development as soon as we become aware of it.

The main Internet free-speech groups are:

www.epic.org
www.eff.org
www.cdt.org

Love and liberty,