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Does Filtering Stop the Flow of Valuable Information?: A Case Study of the Children?s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) in South Dakota

By Alliance Alert

SSRN: "The filtering requirements of the CIPA present one of the first successful governmental efforts to help parents protect their children from harmful Internet material. However, the lingering issue is whether that filtering effort, as alleged by the CIPA opponents, unduly restricts the free speech rights of adults. A study was designed to determine how often adults were denied access to information at South Dakota public libraries using the federal E-rate program as a filter on library terminals."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on March 27, 2009 (boomark / email).