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"Don't Filter Me" at Six Months

By Chris Hampton, ACLU LGBT Project & Joshua Block, LGBT Project at 6:00pm

Last February, the ACLU LGBT Project launched the "Don't Filter Me" campaign to take on the problem of public schools censoring LGBT-friendly content on the web. Today — which just happens to also be Banned Websites Awareness Day — we released a report describing the enormous progress we have made in a little over six months. The "Don't Filter Me" campaign has been responsible for instituting major changes in school policy nationwide, and has influenced major web software filtering companies to change their products so that they do not block positive LGBT materials.

Act Now: Tell Software Companies to Remove Anti-LGBT Web Filters From Schools

By Joshua Block, LGBT Project at 4:31pm

Over the past few weeks we’ve been able to announce several victories in our Don’t Filter Me initiative to stop censorship of LGBT websites at public schools. Our largest success to date occurred earlier this month when Lightspeed Systems, which produces software used for website filtering in thousands of public schools across the U.S, stepped up to do the right thing. After its customers began receiving complaints from the ACLU, Lightspeed responded to this problem by removing a discriminating filter from its software.

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