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Lawsuit Seeks Access to Information on Internet For Adult Library Patrons

October 24, 2011
 Oral argument is being held on Oct. 25 in an ACLU lawsuit defending the rights of adults to access information on the Internet on public library computers. The suit challenges a central Washington library system’s filtering policy that hampers adults in researching school assignments, locating businesses and organizations, and doing personal reading on lawful subjects.   Read More »
 

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Lawsuit Seeking Access to Information on Internet for Adult Library Patrons to Continue in Federal Court

May 6, 2010
An ACLU lawsuit defending the rights of adults to access information on the Internet on public library computers will continue in federal court in the wake of today’s Washington Supreme Court 6-3 ruling rejecting claims under the Washington State Constitution. The suit challenges a filtering policy that hampers adults in researching school assignments, locating businesses and organizations, and doing personal reading on lawful subjects. Read More »
 
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Final Settlement of Lawsuit Protects Amazon Users’ Privacy and Free Speech Rights

February 9, 2011
The final settlement of a lawsuit in which the ACLU intervened will protect the privacy of what customers read, view, and listen to via their purchases on Amazon.com.  Read More »
 
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Court Upholds Amazon Users’ Privacy and Free Speech Rights

October 26, 2010
In a victory for privacy and free speech on the Internet, a federal court emphasized  that government officials cannot watch over our shoulders to see what we are buying and reading. Read More »
 

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Viacom v. YouTube: How a District Court Saved Free Speech on the Internet

Randy Tyler
Tuesday, July 6th, 2010 at 4:14 pm
The democratizing effect of the Internet is arguably its greatest feature, resulting in a revolutionary explosion of free speech and expression. But this effect recently came under fire in Viacom v. YouTube, a case affecting the fundamental framework of how content is created, disseminated and stored on line. Thankfully, by ruling that YouTube was covered by the “safe harbor” provision of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA), a U.S. District Court might have just saved the Internet as we know it.

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Bradburn v. NCRLD (Internet Filtering at Libraries)

Three library users and a nonprofit organization brought suit to ensure that patrons of a library system in Eastern Washington have access to useful and lawful information on the Internet. The lawsuit challenges the library system’s rigid policy of using a very restrictive Internet filter to bar access to information on its computers and of refusing to honor requests by adult patrons to temporarily disable the filter for sessions of uncensored reading and research. Read More »
 
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ACLU Suit Seeks Access to Information on Internet for Library Patrons

June 23, 2009
The lawsuit challenges the North Central Regional Library District's use of a strict Internet filter on public computers, and its refusal to temporarily disable the filter for adult users. Read More »
 

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Bradburn v. NCLRD complaint

Complaint seeking a change in NCLRD Internet filtering policies. Read More »
 
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Libraries, the Internet, and the Law: Adults Must Have Unfiltered Access

November 16, 2006
Background on the effect of the Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA) on public computer access at libraries. Read More »
 
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Artistic Freedom on Cable TV

August 12, 2005
Last summer, Bremerton-Kitsap Access Television took off the air the “Saturn Series,” a conceptual art show that combined assorted footage with political captions criticizing the Bush administration. With the help of the ACLU, producer Gary Nicholson regained his broadcasting privileges Read More »
 
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