[KLUG Members] CIPA unconstitutional

[Rusty Yonkers]

> 
> CIPA has just been declared unconstitutional by the Supreme Court
> of
> the United States.  Public schools that installed content
> "filtering"
> should now deinstall the products and gleefully mail them back to
> their vendors, preferably after chopping them up into little
> boullion-cube-sized pieces.  It's safe for your students to do
> their
> homework again.

I would hope that most schools would keep that filtering intact.  It
is good to know that the federal government is not trying to dictate
local policy from Washington but filtering is a great and needed
thing in the libraries.  And yes libraries do censor material. 
Simply by buying some books and not others, and in the decisions
about what to cull out of the collection, the library is making
censorship decisions.  Just look at the number of Windows books in
the library compared to the number of Linux books!  I can see IPCOP
with squid guard and dans guardian being a great solution for schools
and libraries!  



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