{"id":790,"date":"2005-04-20T08:57:20","date_gmt":"2005-04-20T13:57:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=790"},"modified":"2005-04-20T08:57:20","modified_gmt":"2005-04-20T13:57:20","slug":"hb3314-may-refocus-on-library-filtering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=790","title":{"rendered":"HB3314 may refocus on library filtering"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At a hearing on HB3314 on Monday night, the sponsor said that she may focus the bill specifically on libraries.<br \/>\nAccording to the US Supreme Court in <a href=\"http:\/\/a257.g.akamaitech.net\/7\/257\/2422\/23jun20030800\/www.supremecourtus.gov\/opinions\/02pdf\/02-361.pdf\">United States v. American Library Association<\/a>, filtering software used in a library needs to enable adults to turn the filtering off.   Representative Gattis, who is part-owner of a wireless broadband company, explained that it is not practical to deploy filtering to public access points.<br \/>\nIn 2001, the Texas Library Association helped to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.txla.org\/pubs\/texline\/010529.html#three\">defeat a library filtering amendment<\/a> to the appropriations bill.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncsl.org\/programs\/lis\/CIP\/filterlaws.htm\">Current Texas law<\/a> requires library internet filtering only for recipients of TIF grant funding, a program whose revenues are no longer being used to fund library computers.<br \/>\nThe hearing starts at about 2:20 at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.house.state.tx.us\/fx\/av\/committee79\/50418p37.ram\">this video<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At a hearing on HB3314 on Monday night, the sponsor said that she may focus the bill specifically on libraries. According to the US Supreme Court in United States v. American Library Association, filtering software used in a library needs to enable adults to turn the filtering off. Representative Gattis, who is part-owner of a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/?p=790\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;HB3314 may refocus on library filtering&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-austin"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prDRq-cK","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/790\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alevin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}