Feds Try Odd Anti-Porn Approach: “The U.S. Department of Justice is quietly recruiting critics of filtering software to help it

defend a controversial anti-pornography law in court.

Government attorneys are asking librarians and academics who have published criticisms of the

controversial filtering products to testify in an expected trial over the Child Online Protection Act. The Justice Department’s reasoning is simple: If products like Cyberpatrol and Surfwatch are

so badly flawed that they don’t block what they should, then the judge in the case should

uphold a federal law making it a crime to post erotica online instead.” [Wired]