Anti-LGBTQ Web Filtering
Governor Mifflin School District and Filtering of LGBT Online Content
The American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Pennsylvania have sent a letter requesting that school officials at Governor Mifflin School District in Berks County stop using Internet filters that violate students' First Amendment free speech rights. The district uses a "sexuality" filter that blocks sites that express support of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people, and an "intolerance" filter that blocks political advocacy sites that are labeled as intolerant.
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3 Anti-LGBTQ Web Filtering Cases
Missouri
Apr 2012
PFLAG v. Camdenton R-III School District
As part of our "Don't Filter Me" campaign, the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Eastern Missouri filed a federal lawsuit against a school district in Camdenton, Missouri, whose Internet filtering software blocks access to web content geared toward the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities. The ACLU is joined in the lawsuit by LGBT organizations whose websites are blocked by the filter: Parents, Family and Friends of Lesbian and Gays (PFLAG), the Matthew Shepard Foundation, Campus Pride, and DignityUSA, a Catholic LGBT organization.
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Missouri
Anti-LGBTQ Web Filtering
PFLAG v. Camdenton R-III School District
As part of our "Don't Filter Me" campaign, the American Civil Liberties Union and the ACLU of Eastern Missouri filed a federal lawsuit against a school district in Camdenton, Missouri, whose Internet filtering software blocks access to web content geared toward the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) communities. The ACLU is joined in the lawsuit by LGBT organizations whose websites are blocked by the filter: Parents, Family and Friends of Lesbian and Gays (PFLAG), the Matthew Shepard Foundation, Campus Pride, and DignityUSA, a Catholic LGBT organization.
Apr 2012
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Tennessee
Aug 2009
Franks v. Metropolitan Board of Public Education
Access to pro-LGBT sites blocked.
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Tennessee
Anti-LGBTQ Web Filtering
Franks v. Metropolitan Board of Public Education
Access to pro-LGBT sites blocked.
Aug 2009
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