LawMeme LawMeme Yale Law School  
LawMeme
Search LawMeme [ Advanced Search ]
 
 
 
 
Lawsuits To Threaten Libraries That Do Not Filter Internet
Posted by Ernest Miller on Monday, January 28 @ 14:35:39 EST Free Expression
The Traditional Values Coalition claims that it will launch a series of class-action lawsuits against libraries that do not filter pornography from their computers (Help Us Protect Children from Library Porn and Pedophiles!). The Anaheim, Ca. based group is led by Rev. Louis P. Sheldon and generally focuses on opposition to homosexual civil liberties. Rev. Sheldon was most recently in the news for opposing spousal benefits for non-heterosexual couples following the World Trade Center attack.

For more information on filtering and censorship be sure to check out Peacefire and the Censorware Project - which note that as of Jan. 9, the website of the American Cancer Society is blocked by CyberPatrol (ACS Blocked by CyberPatrol). More relevant, the Censorware Project has an archive on a case where a library was sued for permitting minors to have unrestricted access to the Internet (Livermore, Ca. Lawsuit).

 
Related Links
· More about Free Expression
· News by Ernest Miller


Most read story about Free Expression:
The Future of Virtual Kiddie Pr0n and Other Notes on Ashcroft v. Free Speech

Options

 Printer Friendly Page  Printer Friendly Page

 Send to a Friend  Send to a Friend

Threshold
  
The comments are owned by the poster. We aren't responsible for their content.

Leges humanae nascuntur, vivunt, moriuntur
Human laws are born, live, and die

Contributors retain copyright interests in all stories, comments and submissions.
Everything else copyright (c) 2002 by the Information Society Project.

This material may be distributed only subject to the terms and conditions
set forth in the Open Publication License, v1.0 or later.
The latest version is currently available at http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/.

You can syndicate our news with backend.php

Page Generation: 0.185 Seconds