Below are links with details about Wednesday’s arguments by Solicitor General Theodore Olson and Paul Smith, for the American Library Association, in United States v. American Library Association, 02-361.
Start here, with Shelf-Censorship, an opinion piece that includes useful links and an important perspective on the key issues of the case, and then move on to the other articles as follows: Sides Debate Web Access in Libraries, Supreme Court looks at free speech and Internet filters in public libraries; Supreme Court Considers Web Porn Filter Case; and Foes lock horns in Web filtering case.
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Daily Archives: March 6, 2003
Censorship and Libraries
From the USAToday, this Op-Ed, Library restrictions borrow from colonial-era abuses is worth a read. And an opposing view from another Op-Ed in the same paper: Congressman Pickering on Children’s Internet Protection Act. Continue Reading
CDT Opposes Maryland Bill Impacting ISPs
Maryland House Bill 661, Internet Child Pornography – Removal, is opposed by the advocacy group Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT). CDT staff counsel John B. Morris testified before the Judiciary Committee Maryland House of Delegates on March 4 that the bill has “…due process problems under the Fourteenth Amendment, free speech problems under the… Continue Reading
New System to Fight UK ID Fraud
British Telecom launched “a new global identity verification system, called You Are You (URU). The system will allow governments or businesses to enter a persons details and search through databases such as the Electoral Role and Post Office Address File to authenticate their identity.” Continue Reading
Lawyers and Blogs
The Opportunities and Dangers of Lawyer Blogging highlights the pros and cons of lawyer blogs. Continue Reading
Interview With Attorney/Bloggers
In Interview with Bloggers, Director of the Oklahoma Bar Association Management Assistance Program Jim Calloway discussed blogs with two expert techie attorneys and I am pleased to say, colleagues; Dennis Kennedy and Tom Mighell. A public thank you to both for mentioning beSpacific. Continue Reading
Legislation to Protect Children on the Web
From the Washington Post, this timely article, Primer: Children, The Internet and Pornography, tracks the checkered past six years of laws specifically intended to protect children on the Web. Unfortunately, no links to the enacted laws and proposed legislation are provided, so here they are: the Children’s Internet Protection Act; the Child Online Protection Act;… Continue Reading
