Ever wonder exactly what's being excluded by the software filters used to keep people, particularly students, from exploring every nook and cranny of the Internet?\n The Censorware Project did and it may be about to find out. The Utah State Records Committee ordered the Utah Education Network to produce a list of the sites that are blocked by SmartFilter, which is used in Utah public schools.\n At first, the Utah Education Network did not want to release the list. It claimed information about the sites blocked by the filter belonged to each school district. It said that if the Censorware Project wanted to know, it needed to call each and every district.\n Michael Sims, a New Yorker who heads the project, appeared the decision and won. He said the Censorware Project is a volunteer organization which wants to stimulate national debate on the proper use of filtering.\n Sims said he is aware that the filtering program used in Utah has, at times, blocked Web sites that discussed AIDS, hepatitis, gay rights, abortion and Islam. He said it was important for Utah residents to know the supposedly harmful kinds of information being kept from students.\n It is still possible that individual districts may file an appeal of the decision to the state district court.
All models were at least 18 years old at the time of their performance. 18 U.S.C. 2257 Record-Keeping Requirements Compliance Statement.
