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• Title: Discriminatory Filtering: Cipa's Effect on Our Nation's Youth and Why the Supreme Court Erred in Upholding the Constitutionality of the Children's Internet Protection Act.
• Author : Federal Communications Law Journal
• Release Date : January 01, 2005
• Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 341 KB

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I. INTRODUCTION In a country where we are slowly being stripped of our constitutional freedoms through complex government action such as the USA PATRIOT ACT (2) and Homeland Security regulations, (3) it is essential that we retain the basic First Amendment freedoms of disseminating and accessing information. (4) Recent legislation affecting two large sources of information, the Internet (5) and public libraries, threatens these essential freedoms. Congress's objective is to filter obscene and indecent material in response to a perceived threat by members of the public, specifically to minors, who are using computer terminals at public libraries and schools to access pornographic sites on the Internet. To meet this objective, Congress introduced the Children's Internet Protection Act ("CIPA"). (6) The provisions of CIPA have provoked tension between two competing interests: protecting minors from "cyberpornography" and safeguarding First Amendment rights. The effect of the Act is an overly broad bar limiting access to two of this country's invaluable resources. (7)

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