Pro-filtering opinion

The problem with this article appears at the end of the second paragraph: "They should find the fact that federal funding will be jeopardized by their libraries unwillingness to cooperate with federal guidelines for the Children's Internet Protection Act [2000] in filtering obscenity out of both adult and children's terminals."

The assumption that CIPA specifies that only obscenity (which is clearly defined by law and illegal to begin with) be filtered and that filters only remove obscenity is patently wrong. Both CIPA and filters remove material that is "harmful to minors" which has no definition within the law.