Under pressure from the American Civil Liberties Union, a California software company agreed to remove a web filter blocking public school students from access to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender websites. Removing the filter allows over additional 6 million students to check out the sites.
Suzanne Ito wrote in an ACLU commentary that the public schools are violating the First Amendment in using the filters, “Because public schools cannot engage in viewpoint-based censorship, any public school that activates one of these anti-LGBT filters is breaking the law.” -db
From a commentary from the American Civil Liberties Union, May 20, 2011, by Suzanne Ito.
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