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	Prince William Libraries to Keep Web Filters
	Prince William County library officials say they intend to continue limiting what adults can see on the Internet, even though a panel of three federal judges recently ruled that such restrictions violate patrons' free speech rights, Washington Post (June 12, 2002)

	Federal Judges Reject Online Porn Law
	Three federal judges on Friday threw out a federal law that would have forced public libraries to equip computers with software designed to block access to Internet pornography, Associated Press via MSNBC (May 31, 2002)

	Bills Would Limit Access to Internet at Libraries
	The Illinois House and Senate on Wednesday advanced separate measures that would aim to limit minors' access to sexually explicit material in public libraries, Post-Dispatch (May 29, 2002)

	Massachusetts Internet Filtering Technology Company Says Mandatory Filtering Laws Aren't Needed
	SurfControl has issued a statement saying that Internet blocking laws are not necessary, CNET News (June 4, 2001)

	Libraries Win Delay in Installing Internet Filters
	Public schools and libraries have until at least July 2002 to comply with a federal law requiring Internet blocking technologies in exchange for federal grants and discounts, SiliconValley.com (May 16, 2001)

	Libraries Win Delay in Installing Internet Filters
	Public schools and libraries have until at least July 2002 to comply with a federal law requiring Internet blocking technologies in exchange for federal grants and discounts, San Francisco Chronicle (May 16, 2001)

	Bill Ties E-Rate Funds To Net Anonymity Blockers
	A bill proposed by Felix Grucci, Jr. (R-NY) would require schools and libraries recieving E-rate funding to block anonymous web and emailing services, Newsbytes (May 16, 2001)

	ACLU, Library Groups Win Minor Victory In Filtering Case
	Public libraries that receive federal funding for Internet access will have an extra year to decide whether to stop accepting the funds or to comply with a new law requiring Internet content filters on all computers, under the terms of an agreement reached by the US government and groups fighting the law, Newsbytes (May 16, 2001)

	FilterGate, or Knowing What We're Walling In or Walling Out
	A humorous and insightful essay on the problems associated with Internet blocking, MultiMedia Schools (May 1, 2001)

	Down by Law: New Internet Laws Will Hurt the Poorest of the Poor
	An opinion piece addressing the digital divide in the light of CHIPA and other government policies, A List Apart (April 6, 2001)

	Censoring the Libraries
	The latest threat comes from the Children's Internet Protection Act, passed by Congress in December, which is to take effect next month, San Francisco Chronicle (March 23, 2001)

Library Smut Snit Heats Up It was reunion time Tuesday on Capitol Hill, as conservatives rallied to decry Internet "bestiality," a jab at overly permissive liberals, and remind everyone that library filtering is not only a good idea but also a very good law, Wired News (March 21, 2001)

	CIPA Challenged
	The Multnomah County Public Library (Portland Oregon area) and other plaintiffs filed a complaint in U.S. District Court against the U.S. and other defendants challenging the constitutionality of the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA), Tech Law Journal Daily E-Mail Alert (March 21, 2001)

Libraries: Filter Out Filters Filtering software is so prone to glitches that it has no place in public libraries, librarians and free speech groups claim in two lawsuits filed Tuesday, Wired News (March 20, 2001)

	Librarians Contest Law Requiring Net Filters
	The American Civil Liberties Union and American Library Association filed separate suits Tuesday in a federal district court in Philadelphia challenging a new law that requires federally funded schools and libraries to install software that blocks "objectionable" online materials, Reuters via SiliconValley.com (March 20, 2001)

Libraries Spearhead Attack on Cyber-Porn Law At issue is a free speech challenge to a U.S. law designed to prevent children from being exposed to Internet pornography in public libraries and schools, Reuters via Industry Standard (March 20, 2001)

	Diverse Coalition Sues to Overturn Web-Filtering Law
	Civil liberties groups joined a host of library associations today in challenging a new law that requires federally funded schools and libraries to install software that blocks "objectionable" online materials, Newsbytes (March 20, 2001)

	Lawsuits Slam Net Filtering Efforts
	The American Civil Liberties Union and American Library Association filed separate suits Tuesday in a federal district court in Philadelphia challenging a new law that requires federally funded schools and libraries to install software that blocks "objectionable" online materials, CNET News (March 20, 2001)

	ALA Lawsuit Poll
	The American Civil Liberties Union and American Library Association filed separate suits Tuesday in a federal district court in Philadelphia challenging a new law that requires federally funded schools and libraries to install software that blocks "objectionable" online materials, Excite News (March 19, 2001)

Groups Ally to Protest Filtering Law

Signers of a statement criticizing Internet blocking as "error-prone, vulnerable, problematic, and unfairly discriminatory" include the ACLU, Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, the First Amendment Project, NetAction, the Online Policy Group, Peacefire, and People for the American Way, as well as several individuals, including librarians, Library Journal (February 5, 2001)

	Advocacy Groups Join to Oppose Mandatory Filters
	A network of privacy and free-speech organizations and concerned individuals released a joint statement January 23 opposing Internet blocking technologies required by the Child Internet Protection Act (CIPA) passed by Congress December 21, American Libraries (January 29, 2001)

	Free-Speech, Privacy Advocates Band Together to Fight New Internet Filtering Law
	A coalition of free-speech and privacy organizations this week launched a national campaign designed to warn the public about the inadequacies of a new federal filtering law and to pave the way for a legal challenge against the law on First Amendment grounds, Freedom Forum Online (January 26, 2001)

	Opposition to Library Filtering Grows
	The issue of restricting Internet access to constitutionally protected material in the nation's libraries continued to make headlines last week, American Bookseller Association Industry Newsroom (January 26, 2001)

	Advocates Protest Mandatory Net Filters
	The American Civil Liberties Union, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, the Electronic Frontier Foundation and several other organizations and advocates are fighting a federal law that would require most of the nation's public schools to block depictions of child pornography, obscenity or other material deemed inappropriate for children, CNET News.com (January 24, 2001)

	Librarians Up-in-Arms
	The American Library Association has decided to challenge a controversial Net-filtering law in court, Wired News (January 20, 2001)

	Free-Speech Advocates Fight Filtering Software in Public Schools
	One month after Congress passed a law pressuring public schools and libraries to install blocking or filtering software on computer terminals to screen out Internet smut, three free-speech powerhouses are gearing up to slay the measure in federal court, New York Times (January 19, 2001)

	Librarians to Sue Over Mandatory Censoring
	The American Library Association is planning to sue over the new federal law that is putting Web filters on public school and library computers, Slashdot (January 18, 2001)

	Filter THIS! Librarians to Sue Over New Law
	The American Library Association has decided to file a lawsuit challenging a new federal law that would require filtering in public schools and libraries, ZDNet News (January 17, 2001)

	Programmer Finds Filtering System Too Diligent
	As Congress mulls whether smut-blocking software should be installed in all public schools and libraries, a computer programmer on Tuesday published a report alleging that at least one filtering company takes its job too far, CNET News.com (October 24, 2000)

	Testing
	Testing, testing (July 18, 1996)

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