Supreme Court to review porn filtering Act
“NYT” story.
“WASHINGTON, Nov. 12. The Supreme Court agreed today to review Congress’s latest effort to shield children from pornography on the Internet, a federal law that requires libraries to install filters on all computers providing Internet access to adults as well as to young patrons.
A special three-judge federal court in Philadelphia ruled last spring that the Children’s Internet Protection Act was unconstitutional because it induced public libraries to violate their patrons’ First Amendment rights as a condition of receiving federal financing for Internet access….”