Bush Calls for Internet-Filter Mandate
for Libraries and Schools
In campaign appearances October 5, George W. Bush said he would require libraries and schools that receive federal funds to install Internet filters to prevent children from accessing sexually explicit or violent material.
At Helen Keller Middle School in Royal Oak, Michigan, student Zach Benton, 12, demonstrated the school’s filtering system for Bush and his wife, the Detroit Free Press reported October 6. Requiring the filters would help ensure that children were shielded from “filth and violence,” said Bush. “Culture is sometimes the enemy of what parents and teachers are trying to teach our children.”
Bush repeated his call for filters that day at McKinley Elementary School in Appleton, Wisconsin, where he addressed some 400 supporters. In the family-themed appearances Bush also backed flexible work rules for parents, the restoration of “family hour” by the television industry, and programs to curb drug abuse, especially among teenagers.
Posted October 9, 2000.
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