Anti-CIPA Activists Call for
April 20 Protests
The Online Policy Group, a free-speech nonprofit cybergroup launched in mid-2000, has issued a call for like-minded individuals and groups to demonstrate for unfettered Internet access on April 20—the day the Children’s Internet Protection Act takes effect.
“We must protest congressionally mandated Internet blocking because it censors constitutionally protected materials, stunts the intellectual growth of American children, and weighs unfairly on disadvantaged and ‘controversial’ communities,” group founder Will Doherty told the online news service Newsbytes April 2.
The call for the protest includes suggestions that people demonstrate in person at regional office locations of the Federal Communications Commission and the Institute of Museum and Library Services, as well as at individual libraries and the offices of filter manufacturers. A half-dozen librarians have added their names to the Web site’s list of “individual endorsers” of the protest.
Posted April 9, 2001.
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