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Benjamin G. Edelman ’02 was called by the ACLU two years ago to conduct a research study on blocking internet accessibility. The ACLU is currently is currently in court to challenge a federal law—the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA)—that requires public libraries to use filters to limit Internet access to obscene material...
...interview yesterday, Edelman said his research had shown that Internet blocking programs “when configured according to what CIPA would seem to require, inevitably leads to systematic and persistent overblocking of websites offering non-objectionable and non-pornographic content...
Speaking before the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia, Edelman said that his research had shown Internet filters were not actually effective—censoring far more than the potentially inappropriate sites they are intended to block...
...Edelman conducted his research by compiling a list of nearly half a million Yahoo-affiliated websites available in February 2001. He used this list to test four of the most popular blocking programs...
...Families are spending more time at home and more time doing things together post-Sept. 11," says Julie Edelman, author of the kids' cookbook Once upon a Recipe (Once upon a Recipe Press). "My mom preferred me not to be in the kitchen, since mealtime was her time. Now, though, mealtime is 'our' time, and that has created a whole new world of cooking with kids...