[schoen]

Do you know how much funding is at stake nationwide? (It's E-Rate, as I recall.) How credible is it that an organization or wealthy individual or crowdfunding effort could offer a wholesale alternative? In San Francisco, SFPL chose to give up this funding several years ago in order to decline to install censorware.

Edit: a whole lot of money! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Rate#Modernization

[superuser2]

Libraries do tend to be bastions of extreme left-wing views on surveillance and censorship, so perhaps on the library side.

School boards, no way. I can't think of an easier way to torpedo a school board career (or indeed a "pillar of the community" parent's status in the neighborhood) than by mentioning that they think children should have easier access to pornography at school.

[icebraining]

Libraries do tend to be bastions of extreme left-wing views on surveillance and censorship

By context I can guess what you mean, but by itself it's a very ambiguous statement :)

[superuser2]

Eh, I don't think so. Civil Liberties over Family Values and all that.

[cmdrfred]

Call it "Internet Deregulation" and say that you will be able to lower taxes by X percent if you don't have to spend money on expensive internet filter solutions.