Safe surfing. (On the Web).Three federal judges on May 31 threw out the Children's Internet Protection Act The Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) is one of a number of bills that the United States Congress has proposed in an attempt to limit children's exposure to pornography and other controversial material online. , which would have forced public libraries to equip computers with software designed to block access to Internet pornography Internet pornography is pornography that is distributed via the Internet, primarily via websites, peer-to-peer file sharing, or Usenet newsgroups. While pornography had been traded over the Internet since the 1980s, it was the invention of the World Wide Web in 1991 as well as the . Critics had argued that Internet filters See Web filtering and firewall. can mistakenly categorize cat·e·go·rize tr.v. cat·e·go·rized, cat·e·go·riz·ing, cat·e·go·riz·es To put into a category or categories; classify. cat informational, nonerotic Web sites as porn, making information on breast cancer and coming-out resources for gay people unavailable to library Net surfers. The judges apparently agreed. "Any public library that adheres to CIPA's conditions will necessarily restrict patrons' access to a substantial amount of protected speech, in violation of the First Amendment," the judges wrote. |
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