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Couple of things not everyone may know:
1) Clinton signed the HHS budget, which included this law, on Dec. 21.
2) It becomes law on Apr. 20.
3) I interviewed one of the ACLU attorneys, for an SLJ story, last week; she
said that there's a lot of discussion going on as far as how to file suit,
and the attorneys may decide to sue on behalf of public libraries instead of
school libraries because the law will force filtering on adults in public
libraries, and the ACLU feels they'll have a stronger case. However, Judy
Krug of ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom says that ALA wants to make
certain the ruling will affect all libraries.
4) If you get e-rate money, & the bill becomes law, you MUST filter all
terminals used by the public, & you can't disable the filtering for students
under 17. (In this law "adults" means 17 & over).
5) The bill is an interesting insight into the emotions driving the authors.
Text is not required to be filtered unless there's a local statute saying it
must; the filtering affects only "visual depictions" that are "obscene" or
"harmful to minors." Makes me wonder--would libraries be able to go to XXX
sites if they made certain the graphics were turned off? 8-{)> --W
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> From: Josephine Dervan [SMTP:rderva@INFI.NET]
> Sent: Friday, January 05, 2001 5:05 PM
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> Subject: Re: Filtering/ PL 106-554/ USA
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> Margarette wrote:
> Does anyone have
> > more accurate information? I have looked in Thomas and ALA but haven't
> > seen much.
>
> Back in December Steven Hofmann from ALA sent in a message about the
> passage of this bill in the House of Representatives with a 292 to 60
> vote. Everything that I have read seems to indicate that the bill will
> be challenged in court by the ACLU and other civil liberties groups.
> Historically most challenges have been successful. However the
> implementation of this law should be many months away while legal
> challenges are tried.
>
> The ALA article is at:
>
> http://www.ala.org/washoff/alawon/alwn9100.html
>
> Jo
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