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Senate Holds Hearing on Filtering MandateThe Senate Commerce Committee held a hearing March 4 on a bill requiring schools and libraries that receive federal e-rate subsidies for Internet connections to install Internet filtering software. “Dictating a solution to local communities would undermine the thoughtful processes that most libraries and schools have already undertaken,” said Candace Morgan, associate director of the Fort Vancouver (Wash.) Regional Library. The Associated Press reported that Morgan's view that the bill would mandate filters to be running at all times brought a sharp rebuke from the bill's cosponsor, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.): “Your testimony does not coincide with what the intent and the language of the legislation says. I'm sorry that you would not read English the same way that everybody else does.” Bruce Taylor, president of the National Law Center for Children and Families, maintained that “The libraries and the schools are not going to use these technologies unless someone makes them do it.” The written statements of the hearing's witnesses are on the Senate committee's Web site. Posted March 8, 1999. |
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