Politech: FC: David Burt on how the Supreme Court cited his pornstudy

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

David Burt at the Supreme Court:
http://www.mccullagh.org/image/d30-34/david-burt-n2h2.html

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Subject: Re: FC: Responses to Supreme Court upholding library 
filtering-funding law
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2003 15:32:13 -0700
From: <dburt () n2h2 com>
To: <declan () well com>

Declan,

Remember the article you wrote when you were with Wired about the 
Mainstream Loudoun ruling:
"A key witness for the county was David Burt, the founder of 
filteringfacts.org and a public librarian in Lake Oswego, Oregon. The judge 
found Burt's written testimony not only unpersuasive, but damaging to the 
case he was trying to make. "Burt's own statements indicate that such 
problems are practically nonexistent," Brinkema said, noting that when Burt 
emailed thousands of librarians asking them for information about sexual 
harassment complaints, it "did not yield a single serious response."
"Library Filters Must Go," Wired, by Declan McCullagh, Nov. 23, 1998
Story location: http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,1283,16455,00.html

Did you happen to catch my citation in footnote 1 of the majority 
opinion  ALA v. U.S.?
"Upon discovering these problems,Congress became concerned that the E-rate 
and LSTA programs were facilitating access to illegal and harmful pornography.
S.Rep.No.105 -226,p.5 (1998).Congress learned that adults "us [e ]library 
computers to access pornography that is then exposed to staff,passersby,and 
children," and that "minors acces [s ] child and adult pornography in 
libraries."1
1 The Children 's Internet Protection Act:Hearing on S.97 before the Senate 
Committee on Commerce,Science,and Transportation,106th Cong.,1st Sess.,49 
(1999)(prepared statement of Bruce Taylor,President and Chief 
Counsel,National Law Center for Children and Families).See also Obscene 
Material Available Via The Internet:Hearing before the Subcommittee on 
Telecommunications,Trade,and Consumer Protection of the House Committee on 
Commerce,106th Cong.,
2d Sess.1,27 (2000)(citing D.Burt,Dangerous Access,2000 Edition: Uncovering 
Internet Pornography in America ' s Libraries (2000)) (noting more than 
2,000 incidents of patrons,both adults and minors, using library computers 
to view online pornography,including obscenity and child pornography).
http://a257.g.akamaitech.net/7/257/2422/23jun20030800/www.supremecourtus.gov/opinions/02pdf/02-361.pdf

--David




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