September 09, 2002

Censorware company financial document

There are great gems in financial documents. I found this in N2H2's Form 10-Q for August 2002.

Our filtering services have been accused of overbreadth by free speech groups.

In a recent federal court case, a federal appeals court held that certain provisions of the Children's Internet Protection Act resulted in an unconstitutional restriction of freedom of speech. These provisions required public libraries receiving federal funds to install Internet filtering programs like N2H2's on all of their computer terminals. The basis for this ruling is, in part, that such programs are overbroad in the types of speech that they filter out. This ruling is currently on appeal to the United States Supreme Court. To the extent that this decision is upheld, it will negatively impact our ability to market our products to libraries without modification, which could be time-consuming and costly.

They said it, not me ....

By Seth Finkelstein | posted in censorware | on September 09, 2002 11:51 PM (Infothought permalink)

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