one of URLs that they deemed should be blocked according to the filters' criteria, and

another of URLs that they deemed should not be blocked according to the filters' criteria. 

They compiled these lists by choosing Web sites from the results of certain key word

searches.

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  The problem with this selection method is that it is neither random, nor does it

necessarily approximate the universe of Web pages that library patrons visit.  

The two other studies, one by David Biek, head librarian at the Tacoma Public

Library's main branch, and one by Cory Finnell of Certus Consulting Group, of Seattle,

Washington, chose actual logs of Web pages visited by library patrons during specific

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  Hunter drew three different  samples  for his test.  The first consisted of  50

randomly generated Web pages from the Webcrawler search engine.   The  second

sample of 50 Web pages was drawn from searches for the terms `yahoo, warez, hotmail,

sex, and MP3,' using the AltaVista.com search engine.   And the  final sample of 100

Web sites was drawn from the sites of organizations who filed amicus briefs in support of

the ACLU's challenges to the Community [sic] Decency Act (CDA) and COPA [the

Children's Online Protection Act], and from Internet portals, political Web sites, feminist

Web sites, hate speech sites, gambling sites, religious sites, gay pride/homosexual sites,

alcohol, tobacco, and drug sites, pornography sites, new sites, violent game sites, safe sex

sites, and pro and anti abortion sites listed on the popular Web directory, Yahoo.com.  

Lemmons testified that he compiled the list of sexually explicit sites that should

have been blocked by entering the terms  free adult sex, anal sex, oral sex, fisting

lesbians, gay sex, interracial sex, big tits, blow job, shaved pussy, and bondage  into the

Google search engine and then  surfing  through links from pages generated by the list of

sites that the search engine returned.  Using this method, he compiled a list of 197 sites

that he determined should be blocked according to the filtering programs' category

definitions.  Lemmons also attempted to compile a list of  sensitive  Web sites that,

although they should not have been blocked according to the filtering programs' category

definitions, might have been mistakenly blocked.  In order to do this, he used the same

method of entering terms into the Google search engine and surfing through the results. 

He used the following terms to compile this list:  breast feeding, bondages, fetishes,

ebony, gay issues, women's health, lesbian, homosexual, vagina, vaginal dryness, pain,

anal cancer, teen issues, safe sex, penis, pregnant, interracial, sex education, penis

enlargement, breast enlargement, . . . and shave.  

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