Pub. date: 2007 | Online Pub. Date: September 15, 2007 | DOI:
10.4135/9781412952606 | Print ISBN: 9781412905305 | Online ISBN:
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encyclopedia Children's Internet Protection Act of 2000 (CIPA)
Jennifer L. Lambe The Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA)
was enacted by Congress in 2000. The Federal Communications
Commission (FCC) is responsible for its implementation. CIPA
compels public schools and libraries receiving federal funding
for Internet access to install a “technology protection measure”
on each computer that connects to the Internet; they are also
required to have a formal Internet safety policy. The motivation
for CIPA is to block children from accessing inappropriate
sexual content online. Specifically, the law requires visual
depictions that are obscene, contain child pornography, or are
harmful to minors to be filtered on computers in public school
and libraries. Textual content is not ...