IP: Right out the box

[Dave Farber <farber@cis.upenn.edu>]

>From: "Meeks, Brock" <Brock.Meeks@MSNBC.COM>
>To: "'farber@cis.upenn.edu'" <farber@cis.upenn.edu>
>Subject: Right out the box
>Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2000 14:26:21 -0800
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>
>The newly minted Bush administration's resolve to take on controversial and
>dicey technology issues will be tested right out the box:  today the ACLU
>announced they will mount a legal challenge to the mandatory Internet
>filtering bill that passed as a rider on the larger budget bill.
>
>The bill requires all schools and libraries that accept federal funds to
>install so-called "blocking" software on all Internet capable computers.
>
>The Bush Justice Department will have to defend the bill in court.  It's
>doomed, of course, given the strong precedents of Reno v. ACLU and the
>Loudoun country library decision of 1998 that deemed such filtering was
>unconstitutional; that case also was litigated by the ACLU.
>
>Welcome to Washington, Mr. Bush... enjoy your four year stay...



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