[ale] Library is blocking my web site!

[Steve Brown]

On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 4:41 PM, Jim Lynch <ale_nospam at fayettedigital.com>
wrote:

> My wife is in VA visiting her Mom.  The local library has blocked my web
> site, wind-angel.com.  They say it is a "vehicle" web site.  Wtf?
>

The Childrens Internet Protection Act [0] states that "adult library patrons
are able to request that a librarian disable filtering software." Is the
librarian not able to do so? If you go further down that page you will see
that VA also has state laws that say as much.

-Steve Brown

[0] http://www.ncsl.org/programs/lis/cip/filterlaws.htm
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