WITH GREAT POWER COMES GREAT RESPONSIBILITY: The Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA), passed in 2000, mandates that schools receiving federal funding filter out online content potentially “harmful to minors.” According to a report released by the American Library Association, CIPA limits student access to interactive and potentially instructive websites, including Google Docs and National Geographic, and prevents disadvantaged students, who may only have access to the filtered school internet, from “acquiring digital literacy skills that are vital for college and career readiness, as well as for full participation in 21st-century society.”
