Posted on 07/02/2003 10:58:44 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:04:59 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
In a victory for parents seeking to protect their children from pornography, the Supreme Court voted 6-3 last week to uphold a law requiring that public libraries install anti-porn Internet filters as a condition of receiving federal funds. The plurality opinion upholding the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) was written by Chief Justice William Rehnquist on behalf of four of the six justices in the majority — himself and Justices Antonin Scalia, Clarence Thomas and Sandra Day O'Connor. CIPA, signed into law in 2000, was never permitted to take effect due to a lawsuit filed by the ACLU and the American Library Association (ALA).
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