Document #1--Letter to the editor (3/19/99)
Document #2--Use of
University Equipment and Facilities to Access Pornography over the Internet
Professors Timothy Lewis and Jeffrey Barnes have proposed an alternative computer policy providing specified language on filtering pornography. This alternative policy is available by clicking here.
Professor Lewis has prepared a statement to the SUU Academic Computer Users Committee regarding the acceptible use policy. Read this statement here.
Professor Barnes asserts that filtering of hard-core
pornography, child pornography, and obscene sexually explicit material
as defined by state and federal statute from entering Southern Utah University’s
information infrastructure through the Internet is constitutionally defensible.
Click here to find out more.
The National Law Center for Children and Families has
prepared a memorandum of law on legal issues involving the use of filtering
software by libraries, schools, and businesses to screen acquisition of
pornographic material from the Internet. The memorandum is available
here. The National Law Center has
also prepared a memorandum of law on immunity for filter use. This
memorandum is available
here.
In addition, below are links to web sites with content relevant to filtering on the internet.