Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1999
Abstract
The Author describes how libraries electronically bar access to objectionable Internet sites and the legal trouble encountered with this policy by free-speech advocates. The ALA, the American Civil Liberties Union, and other free-speech advocates have strongly resisted having libraries play the role of lnternet censor. But parents and patrons who use the libraries on a regular basis have pressured libraries in a growing number of communities to devise some kind of barrier to viewing sexually explicit material from the Internet on library PCs.
Recommended Citation
Pat Newcombe, Libraries Face Internet Filter Question, GOV'T TECHNOLOGY, MAY 1999, at 50.