IP: CIPA Trial - European coverage

[Dave Farber <dave@farber.net>]

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From: Dan Haley <dan_haley@yahoo.com>
Reply-To: dkhaley@pobox.com
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 02:23:34 -0800 (PST)
To: farber@cis.upenn.edu
Subject: CIPA Trial - European coverage

Professor Farber,

I think you would be interested in the way the CIPA
trial is being presented in Europe.

The coverage is twisted in such a way that suggests
librarians are advocating that pornography be
distributed via public libraries.

I think two points are typically ignored:

(1) The bill gives the federal government the choice
in deciding what is acceptable and inacceptable
speech.

(2) The existing filtering software is not effective
in blocking pornography, but does block a number of
legitimate sites.

A mild example can be found here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/americas/newsid_1893000/1893323.stm



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