For anyone interested in more than the Supreme Court justices’ thinking on protecting kids from online porn (and the Child Online Protection Act they just sent back again to the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia for deliberation, this time on how filtering tech has improved since the Philadelphia court blocked the new law’s enforcment in early ’99), the Washington Post this week held chats between the public and very articulate representatives of the debate’s two sides: Ann Beeson, associate litigation director of the American Civil Liberties Union, and Jan LaRue, chief counsel of Concerned Women for America (these are the chat event transcripts). Further great perspective: the Post’s cogent editorial on this week’s decision.
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