Wednesday, February 27, 2013

ACLU threatens to sue school district over 'discriminatory' internet filters

ACLU internet filter

Earlier today, the Amerian Civil Liberties Union addressed a pointed letter to Pennsylvania's Governor Mifflin School District after a student discovered her high school was blocking access to select LGBT-related websites. The ACLU letter, addressed to superintendent Dr. Daniel Balinski, alleges that GMSD's current web filter is "discriminatory and unconstitutional." Late last year, while researching a social issues project, student Maison Fioravante realized that her school's filtering software — provided by a company called Smoothwall — was blocking LGBT-supportive sites under the guise of a "sexuality" violation. She initially responded by authoring a Change.org petition demanding that the school reform its filtering activities,...


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