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ACTIVISTS ATTACK PORN BILL
The Children's Internet Protection Act was passed by Congress and is expected to be signed into law by President Clinton, setting up a likely legal showdown with the ACLU, Electronic Privacy Information Center, and American Library Association (ALA). The ACLU has vowed to take legal action against the act, which was attached to the huge appropriations spending bill. The act forces schools and libraries to use software filters to protect children from pornography on the Internet; those that do not comply will lose federal funding for computers and Internet access. Claudette Tennant, assistant director of the ALA's office for government relations, labels the bill "an intrusion into local decision-making." Bruce Taylor, president of the National Law Center for Children and Families, defended the bill, accusing ISPs of doing little to protect children on the Internet. Privacy advocates claim that the bill's language is overly broad. Meantime, online civil liberties group Peacefire has launched a new product that supposedly disables all popular Internet filtering programs. (Wired News, 19 December 2000)

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