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House votes to block Net porn on government PCs

By ADF Alliance Alert

CNet News: "The measure, which arrived in the form of an 111-page amendment sponsored by House Appropriations Chairman David Obey, a Wisconsin Democrat, says on the second-to-last page: 'None of the funds made available in this act may be used to maintain or establish a computer network unless such network blocks the viewing, downloading, and exchanging of pornography.' . . .  Patrick Trueman, the former chief of the Justice Department's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section who now does legal work for the conservative Alliance Defense Fund, says the government can easily say that while working on a federal contract, there can be no porn surfing--or even card-playing--because taxpayers have a "right to get their money's worth from contractors."

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on July 09, 2010 (boomark / email).