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Censorship in VA Library?
But Adults get filtered in Virginia... (from Edupage)
VIRGINIA LIBRARY APPLIES INTERNET FILTERS TO ADULT PATRONS
The library board of Loudon County, Virginia, has voted 5-4 to apply
filters that would prevent all patrons, including adults, from viewing
"pornographic and obscene material" or from accessing sexually explicit
e-mail or chat rooms in the library. The head of the American Civil
Liberties Union calls the policy "an outright violation of your First
Amendment rights under the Constitution." (Washington Post 22 Oct 97)
[Postscript: Filtering software recently caused Edupage to be blocked for
a brief time at a high school in California. The blocking was
subsequently deemed by school administrators to have been a "mistake," and
Edupage distribution was reinstated.]
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