The Children’s Internet Protection Act, signed into law by President Clinton in 2000, requires both schools and public libraries receiving federal technology funding to equip their computers with the ...

It's not often that local governments are thankful they do not receive much federal funding, but in the case of local libraries, they should be. The recent Supreme Court decision allows the federal ...

People are talking about internet content filtering, especially since the ACLU won its case against the Child Online Protection Act (COPA), which tried to censor all speech about sex from the internet ...

Sen. Conroy has obviously received rather poor advice. If he follows these instructions, he'll have an unbreakable Internet filter. Firstly, ban all HTTPS connections. These can be used to encrypt who ...

The ACLU on Aug. 15 filed a federal lawsuit against a public school district in Missouri that blocks school computers from access to LGBT supportive organizations. The ACLU charges that the school ...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed suit in January against Salem, Missouri and the town’s Library Board in federal court, claiming the library unconstitutionally blocked access to Web ...

The Association for Alternative Information criticised the central internet filter to be enforced on 22 August. The association found the corresponding recommendations issued by the Internet Committee ...

Congress can require libraries to equip public computers with anti-pornography filters. A divided Supreme Court upheld a controversial law, despite a challenge from the nation's librarians. The ...

A group of plaintiffs including the American Civil Liberties Union and People for the American Way is challenging the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) on the grounds that it violates the ...

Upon the initiative of the Alternative Communication Association, more than a hundred academics launched a signature campaign against applying the disputed internet filtering system at universities.