Congress can require libraries to equip public computers with anti-pornography filters. A divided Supreme Court upheld a controversial law, despite a challenge from the nation's librarians. The ...

The Children’s Internet Protection Act, signed into law by President Clinton in 2000, requires both schools and public libraries receiving federal technology funding to equip their computers with the ...

People are talking about internet content filtering, especially since the ACLU won its case against the Child Online Protection Act (COPA), which tried to censor all speech about sex from the internet ...

A mainstay of the Internet is pornography, with millions of web pages devoted to dirty words and lewd pictures. After two failed Congressional attempts to limit Internet porn, President Clinton signed ...

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed suit in January against Salem, Missouri and the town’s Library Board in federal court, claiming the library unconstitutionally blocked access to Web ...

SB 2307 takes aim at content in libraries and schools, and if it passes, North Dakota taxpayers will have to pay millions of dollars to implement it. Taxpayers would be on the hook for $2 million for ...

The ACLU on Aug. 15 filed a federal lawsuit against a public school district in Missouri that blocks school computers from access to LGBT supportive organizations. The ACLU charges that the school ...

It's not often that local governments are thankful they do not receive much federal funding, but in the case of local libraries, they should be. The recent Supreme Court decision allows the federal ...

This article was copublished with The Markup, a nonprofit, investigative newsroom that challenges technology to serve the public good. There’s a common complaint among high school students across the ...

The Association for Alternative Information criticised the central internet filter to be enforced on 22 August. The association found the corresponding recommendations issued by the Internet Committee ...

Upon the initiative of the Alternative Communication Association, more than a hundred academics launched a signature campaign against applying the disputed internet filtering system at universities.

Annie is a policy analyst for the Center for Technology and the Human Person at The Heritage Foundation. Filtering and blocking software can shield children from obscene content, and it is worth ...