Association leaders prepare to fight censorious Internet legislation

摘要

"I didn't think there would be anything worse than the Communications Decency Act; I was wrong," Freedom to Read Foundation President Candace Morgan told the ALA Executive Board at the Association's Midwinter Meeting in Washington, D.C., as the board prepared to initiate legal action to challenge the constitutionality of the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA), passed December 21 by Congress (AL, Feb., p. 14). Morgan, along with Office for Intellectual Freedom Director Judith Krug and attorney Theresa Chmara of Jenner and Block, advised that the challenge would cost the Association at least as much as the successful suit challenging the CDA, which the Supreme Court ruled unconstitutional four years ago (AL, Aug. 1997, p. 11-12). The case cost