Photos from the courthouse today: http://www.mccullagh.org/theme/cipa-trial-spring02.html
Politech archive on CIPA (the federal filtering law in question): http://www.politechbot.com/cgi-bin/politech.cgi?name=cipa -Declan --- http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51312,00.html Porn-Filter Trial Gets Raunchy By Declan McCullagh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 2:00 a.m. March 26, 2002 PST PHILADELPHIA -- Raunchy depictions of explicit sex punctuated a trial over library filtering on Monday when government attorneys argued the images were unsuitable for display on public terminals. As part of its attempt to defend a library-filtering law from a legal challenge, the U.S. Justice Department unveiled a thick black binder stuffed with color printouts from sex sites. Government attorney Tim Zick asked a librarian testifying in opposition to the law, 59-year-old Candace Morgan, to page through the images and say whether visitors to her public library would be permitted to view them. "Is it your testimony that I have the right to look at these websites?" Zick asked. [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Politech dinner in SF on 4/16: http://www.politechbot.com/events/cfp2002/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
