NY Times: Internet Filters Are: [Good] [Bad] [Both]
In a case decided by the Supreme Court last week, the American Civil Liberties Union had argued that Internet filters are a great way to protect children from pornographic material online. But in a case decided by the Supreme Court last year, the A.C.L.U. argued against a law requiring filters in schools and libraries, and the organization attacked filters in a 1997 paper that said “rating and blocking proposals may torch free speech on the Internet.”
Requiring filters dissuades free speech, but the availability of filtering software promotes free speech more than censorship.
