Neither bill applies to privately-owned computers attached to the campus network in dorm rooms. She did not immediately return phone calls from Wired News. No, according to 89 percent of the 221 respondents. But Silverglate said the bill requiring filtering software runs afoul of the First Amendment's free speech guarantees that restrict government attempts at censorship. They've made a viewpoint discrimination and it's not reasonably related to the educational mission.
Most universities have policies protecting freedom of inquiry.
The bills apply to all university-owned computers, including ones in faculty offices. The ACLU represented them in the case, but lost when the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the law in 1999. Wired Digital Inc. All rights reserved.