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A statutory blunderbuss that mandates this vast amount of overblocking abridges the freedom of speech protected by the First Amendment.
—Justice John Paul Stevens, in his dissent to the Supreme Court’s ruling upholding the Children’s Internet Protection Act. Could we maybe get some bright script kidz to whip up an internet filter that replaces offensive, commonly filtered terms like “breast cancer” and “gay and lesbian youth” and “wiccan religion” with code words like Rehnquist and Thomas and Scalia and Kennedy and Breyer and O’Connor? Or would that not pass muster, somehow?
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To Speak, To Know, To Be
In the Supreme Court's majority opinion upholding the use of content blockers in library internet usage, Chief Justice Rhenquist et