Senate Makes E-Rate Conditional On Schools' Cyberporn Filtering.
Education Technology News, July, 2000
Schools and libraries would have to install filtering software intended to prevent children from seeing Web material that is obscene or otherwise objectionable under bipartisan legislation approved by the U.S. Senate.
The Children's Internet Protection Act, S. 97, would withhold E-rate funding from facilities that do not get such software for their Internet-connected computers. The measure was approved on a 95-3 vote as part of the appropriations bill for the departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education. Sens. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Fritz Hollings (D-S.C.) introduced it.
Under the 1996 Telecommunications Act, e-rate funding is taken from telecommunications providers. The annual $2.5 billion subsidy helps facilities pay for...
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