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Don't Filter Me is a project of the American Civil Liberties Union dedicated to fighting LGBT-related internet censorship that happens in public schools in the United States. ==History== State-funded schools in the United States use content-control software to restrict their students' access to pornographic websites, in accordance with the Children's Internet Protection Act of 2000. The products most commonly used to do this filtering treat websites that offer information about LGBT topics and organizations as pornography, even though these websites do not contain sexually explicit content.〔 One such commonly filtered website is The Trevor Project, a website devoted to suicide prevention among at-risk LGBT youths. The White House publicly praised the Trevor Project in 2011. Other sites that are commonly blocked include GLAAD,〔 PFLAG (Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays), the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (also honored by the White House),〔 the Matthew Shepard Foundation, DignityUSA, Day of Silence,〔 Campus Pride, as well as the Human Rights Campaign (the largest LGBT civil rights advocacy group and political lobbying organization in the United States). A student attempting to access these sites is usually confronted by a page warning, "You have been denied access as it is characterized as LBGT. Your Internet usage is monitored and logged."〔 Some American conservatives are supportive of blocks on these and similar websites since they consider them to be promoting the so-called "homosexual agenda".〔 Filtering tools prevent that students from accessing websites related to positive LGBT organizations often permit access to sites that promote an anti-LGBT viewpoint, sites aimed at convincing LGBT people to change their sexual orientation, or sites that can be considered hate speech against LGBT people. Websites not generally blocked by this kind of filtering include the Family Research Council (an American conservative Christian group and lobbying organization), and the National Organization for Marriage (a political organization dedicated to working against the legalization of same-sex marriage in the United States),〔 Exodus International, and People Can Change (both of which advocate conversion therapy to help gays change their sexual orientation). Neither the American Psychiatric Association or the American Psychological Association consider conversion therapy a legitimate medical practice or homosexuality to be a mental disorder. Companies that filter content for schools often include anti-LGBT content in their "religion" category.〔 Filtering software can also block content beyond the websites themselves. Students would, for example, be permitted to read Bowers v. Hardwick, the 1986 Supreme Court decision that upheld a Georgia law to criminalize sodomy, while prevented from reading Lawrence v. Texas, the 2003 Supreme Court ruling that asserted sodomy laws were unconstitutional.〔 The ACLU contends that this filtering is discriminatory and violates the First Amendment rights of students in public schools.〔 In February 2011, the ACLU launched the ''Don't Filter Me'' project, to combat this censorship and discrimination in viewpoint that was happening in state-funded schools.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Don't Filter Me」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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