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Libraries Face Internet Filter Question, Pat Newcombe
Libraries Face Internet Filter Question, Pat Newcombe
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The Author describes how libraries electronically bar access to objectionable Internet sites and the legal trouble encountered with this policy by free-speech advocates. The ALA, the American Civil Liberties Union, and other free-speech advocates have strongly resisted having libraries play the role of lnternet censor. But parents and patrons who use the libraries on a regular basis have pressured libraries in a growing number of communities to devise some kind of barrier to viewing sexually explicit material from the Internet on library PCs.
Law And The Ideal Citizen, Lee C. Bollinger
Law And The Ideal Citizen, Lee C. Bollinger
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The theme identified for this lecture series is the subject of responsibility. I assume Washington and Lee has selected that topic out of a sense that it has not received sufficient attention, as compared, for example, to the subject of "rights." I select "rights" as the counter-example because we often hear of the two in tandem – "rights and responsibilities." As such, the concept of responsibility connotes a sense of obligation as to what is due from us to others and to the community. It is, in that sense, easier to be in favor of rights than it is of …
Downsizing The Right To Petition, Gary S. Lawson, Guy I. Seidman
Downsizing The Right To Petition, Gary S. Lawson, Guy I. Seidman
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The First Amendment provides that "Congress shall make no law... abridging.., the right of the people.., to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."1 Unlike the First Amendment's speech, press, and religion clauses, this "Petitions Clause" has not spawned an extensive body of case law or academic commentary. The right to petition has been, in many ways, the First Amendment's poor relation.