Children’s Internet Protection Act

I found an interesting article online about what is called the Children’s Internet Protection Act. This was passed in 2000 by President Clinton and addressed the situation of libraries having inappropriate material available to children. The Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) was signed into law by President Clinton in December 2000. This law requires public libraries receiving certain federal funds to: (1) adopt Internet safety policies and (2) use mandatory filtering software to block Internet access for children and adults to materials that are obscene, contain child pornography or are deemed to be harmful to minors. Since then of course, most schools do the same thing, since children are accesing the internet regularly at their schools. What a great way to start preventing children getting into bad things on the internet. Too bad they can’t pass a law like that at home.