Supreme Court Backs Library Filters: any affect on P2P?

[Aaron73153]

In a blow to an alliance of librarians and free speech advocates, the U.S. Supreme Court has upheld a law that requires libraries to filter Web content or lose certain federal funds.

The Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA), passed in 2000, was designed to shield minors from seeing sexually explicit material on the Web.

The ruling could affect millions of people who log onto the Internet from libraries. CIPA requires libraries to filter out material deemed harmful to minors or risk losing federal funds, including the popular E-rate program and other money that helps libraries connect to the Internet and catalog their offerings.

full article: http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-1019952.html?tag=fd_top

Will this ruling have any affect on P2P, via more government involvement in internet regulation. I'm also worried about having the government deem what is inappropriate for children beyond straight pornography. For the moives and other things the government makes suggestions, but its ultimately up to the parents to decide, should this apply to libraries also? Filtering software also block alot of false positives.

[Lamourlady]

Originally posted by Aaron73153

Will this ruling have any affect on P2P, via more government involvement in internet regulation. I'm also worried about having the government deem what is inappropriate for children beyond straight pornography. For the moives and other things the government makes suggestions, but its ultimately up to the parents to decide, should this apply to libraries also? Filtering software also block alot of false positives.

i have to agree with you on a couple of points.
i agree that it is up to the parent to decide.

and i fear too, that the government will hold the strings to almost everything, when some things r clearly none of their business.

but just like when the riaa imposed the "filtering" of tunes, there were also a lot of "false postives", clearly filtering musicians who did not mind their music being traded.

but being a parent...i cannot patrol everything my daughter does on the internet, just like my satellite, i filter out all the porn channels.
i cannot, for it is humanly impossible, filter out everything on the net.
so if they can atleast attempt to do this task, to some degree, i can only see it as a good thing.

but like everything else, there has to be some kind of compromise, so that all is fair. and that is the task which will be the hardest.
just like in the p2p war we fight today.

[v3rt1go]

This does not really affect you or P2p because it has to do with federal funding in fact chances are your library does not get federal funding so it does not care. All the libraries within 300 miles of me are not federally funded so they can do what they want. P2p is of course not federally funded.

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Originally posted by v3rt1go
This does not really affect you or P2p because it has to do with federal funding in fact chances are your library does not get federal funding so it does not care. All the libraries within 300 miles of me are not federally funded so they can do what they want. P2p is of course not federally funded.

I agree as well that I don't believe that this will affect filesharing in any way(at least I hope not)

[Sephiroth]

No..

Porno is not covered in the first amendment.