Monday, March 26, 2007

Free Expression Policy Project on Censorware

by birdie

Seth Finkelstein writes "Free Expression Policy Project has a press release on censorware and the "COPA" decision: "Ironically, in view of the ACLU's educational materials pointing out the massive censorship potential of filters, the ACLU and its fellow plaintiffs now presented experts touting filters' virtues, while the government, which had praised filters a few years earlier when it successfully defended a federal law that mandated their use in schools and libraries now pointed out their flaws. The ACLU explained its apparent inconsistency by saying that filters are fine as long as nobody is compelled to use them.""

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