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Thursday, April 04, 2002
http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,51501,00.html Full Assault on Filter Software Declan McCullagh PHILADELPHIA -- To librarian Anne Lipow, filtering software isn't merely a bad idea. Lipow told a panel of federal judges on Tuesday that Congress' attempt to force the use of anti-smutware in public libraries is positively Stalinist. "It smacks of authoritarianism," said Lipow, a library consultant in Berkeley, California, recalling that the former Soviet Union required patrons to acquire signatures from a local official before they could obtain certain materials....
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