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About Just out. (Portland, OR) 1983-2013 | View Entire Issue (April 5, 2002)
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Denver P H O TO BY M ARTY DAVIS Mechanics With A Conscience (and x-ray vision) T rial n a nine-day trial that started March 25 before the U.S. District Court in Philadel phia, the American Civil Liberties U nion pre sented testimony from librarians, patrons, Web site authors and technology experts to explain why a federal law passed in Decem ber 2000 that forces libraries to censor constitutionally pro tected speech online should he struck down permanently. T he C hildren’s Internet Protection A ct ties funding to the mandated use of blocking programs on Internet terminals used by both adults and minors in public libraries. “Librarians are uniquely qualified to teach library patrons how to find the content they want and avoid inappropri ate content without the government try ing to deputize them T hanks to the A C LU , lesbian teen Emma Rood finally is getting her into the thought day in court police,” said A nn Bee son, a member of the ACLU legal team. consolidated the two cases. Any appeal of the deci Emma Rtxxl, a lesbian teen from Portland, is sion will go straight to the U.S. Supreme G>urt, one of the library patrons suing the federal gov which is required to hear challenges to this law. ernment. O ther clients include a 15-year-old African American girl and her aunt, who do not C hief ' s F orum have Internet access at home in Philadelphia; I H onors O fficer two congressional candidates whose Web sites were blocked; PlanetOut.com, a leading site for he Portland Police Bureau C hief’s Forum sexual minorities; and Planned Parenthood Fed presented its annual community policing eration of America, whose site provides repro awards April 1. The citations were developed to ductive health care information. acknowledge civilians, organizations and Long before blocking programs ever became employees for their contributions. an issue, libraries have made it their mission to Detective Sgt. David Yamasaki received a help people find exactly the information they Certificate of Appreciation “for his work with need, whether it is online or on paper. But “the minority groups and the positive way he per law makes it impossible for us to do our jobs," forms his duties." According to Norm G ista of said G innie Cooper, M ultnom ah C ounty the Sexual Minorities Roundtable, the police Library director, who testified March 25. officer was honored for his work with the queer N onetheless, libraries now must install I community in investigating bias crimes. I a u t o m o t i v e on “blocking technology measures” or forfeit feder al funds. T he law defines such measures as “a specific technology that blocks or filters Internet access” such as the commercially available pro grams X-Stop and CyberPatrol. The ACLU also presented testimony from experts to prove the software irrationally and arbitrarily censors constitutionally protected speech. Examples of sites that were blocked after erroneously being identified as having sexually explicit or pornographic content: www.the-strip- pers.com (a wixxJ varnish removal service), www.redhotmama.com (a California event plan ner), www.muchlove.org (an animal rescue organization) and www.cancerftr.wkmc.com (a hospital radiation oncology department). “The flaws in blcx:king programs are not a mat ter of individual flaws in individual products; they are inevitable given the task and the limitations of the technology,” said Chris Hansen, an ACLU senior staff attorney. “Everyone from a congres sional panel to Consumer Reports to parents have found blocking programs to be unworkable." In contrast, librarians already use their profes sional skills to help patrons who access the Inter net. Such methods include establishing policies prohibiting access to illegal content; the use of handouts, online guides, training sessions and rec ommended Web pages; providing terminals with optional rather than mandatory blocking soft ware; and the use of wraparound privacy screens to maintain a non threatening environment. The American Library Association has filed a similar suit on behalf of its members; the court has
