"A public library does not acquire Internet terminals in order to create a public forum for Web publishers to express themselves, any more than it collects books in order to provide a public forum for the authors of books to speak."
— William Rehnquist

January 1, 1970

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Justices of the Supreme Court of the United StatesJudges from the United StatesLawyers from the United StatesHistorians from the United StatesPeople from Milwaukee
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United States v. American Library Association, 539 U.S. 194 (2003) (plurality opinion); the case concerned whether Congress could require libraries receiving Federal subsidies for Internet connectivity to install filtering software.