Law Limiting Internet in Libraries Challenged
They argue that a law passed by Congress in December 2000
requiring schools and libraries to use Internet filtering software
changes the nature of libraries from being places that provide
information to places that unconstitutionally restrict it.

The law that the librarians and their allies are trying to overturn,
the Children's Internet Protection Act, denies federal financing
and technology discounts via the federal e-Rate program to
schools and public libraries if they do not install a "technology
protection measure" like filters to block access to Web sites
deemed harmful to minors.

The coalition of plaintiffs includes the American Library
Association, the American Civil Liberties Union and Jeffrey L.
Pollock, a Republican Congressional candidate who favored
mandatory filtering until he discovered that his own campaign's
Web site was blocked by one of the most popular filtering
programs.
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