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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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