FC: Philly dispatch: Photos from courthouse, CIPA trial goes blue

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

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

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http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51312,00.html

   Porn-Filter Trial Gets Raunchy
   By Declan McCullagh (declan () wired com)

   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.

   [...]
   




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