net nanny bought out by (potentially) biased company

i recently read a post on librarylaw blog that raised an issue concerning internet filters that i hadn’t considered before. net nanny, which some libraries use, was bought out by contentwatch in february. apparently there are links on the contentwatch website which eventually lead to quotes from religious figures and the christian broadcasting network.

“ContentWatch also maintains a list of articles about pornography and child safety under the heading “LearningCenter.” Their list on pornography includes articles such as “Internet Porn Is a Drug and Pornographers Are Drug Dealers” and “It’s Not About the First Amendment,” both by Mark Kastleman (who has published a book called “The Drug of the New Millennium: The Science of How Internet Pornography Radically Alters the Human Brain and Body,” published by Granite Publishers, which is affiliated with the Latter Day Saints).”

if contentwatch is religiously-biased and not concerned with the first amendment, i wonder if they would be brazen enough to make any obvious changes to the number of sites that are blocked. surely they know librarians are just waiting to pounce on new evidence against the very existence of filters. at this point we can only hope they are that oblivious so the ala can raise new legal challenges to cipa.