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Wednesday, September 18, 2002


Congress yet again showed its ignorance in passing the Children's Internet Protection Act, which went into effect last year. While ostensibly a measure to protect children from pornographic and offensive content, the technology to "filter" inappropriate sites is far from mature, causing many unrelated and totally innocuous sites to be blocked. Although many teachers and administrators are aware of this reality, schools can lose millions of dollars in federal money if they do not comply with this act by installing filters. Apparently the extension of this law to public libraries is pending an appeal, but it has never been challenged as it pertains to schools. As an example mentioned in the article, I think it's a crying shame that a student looking up information on Red Hat Software would need to get the site approved by a "community-based review committee" because it was mistakenly blocked. I do applaud one school district in Oregon for refusing the money rather than submitting to these constraints, but not many schools can afford to turn down these kinds of grants.


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