Re: Gun Activists Have A Stake Against Filtering Software[Censorware]

[Harmon Seaver]

Ray Dillinger wrote:

> On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Matthew Gaylor wrote:
>
> >Both the American Civil Liberties Union and The American Library
> >Association filed suit 3-20-2001 in Federal court to stop the
> >Children's Internet Protection Act (CHIPA).  This is the act that
> >forces libraries and schools to use filtering software (censorware).
>
> Oddly enough, the san francisco public libraries are reading it
> as an act that prevents them from getting federal funds for
> internet access instead.
>

       Well, what it does is stops any fed funding for k12/libraries if
they don't comply. And since both are heavily, almost totally dependant
on e-rates it's a serious threat.