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May, 2003

In March the U.S. Supreme Court planned to hold hearings to decide on the constitutionality of the Children's Internet Protection Act, a controversial federal law that requires public libraries to install website-blocking filters.Nobody would dispute that current blocking software can bar access to valuable content--sometimes to a farcical degree. (In one case, the Flesh Public Library in Piqua, Ohio, named 70 years ago after a donor, was denied access to its own site.) But those who argue that...