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Matthew writes: Teenagers who look to the Internet for health information are being blocked from many useful sites by porn filters that federal law requires on school and library computers, a new study has found.

Alan Firth, one of the seven teenagers in the U.S. who searched for health related information on the Internet last year, found that he could not reach numerous websites.

“I was searching for information on the health risks of having really big boobs, you know, like back aches and stuff, but I couldn’t get to some of the sites. My teacher suggested searching on “breast”, but that just took me to a bunch of cancer sites. Cancer sucks dude.”

“The filters were bad, but I found that not having a credit card was even worse. Some body should do a study of why all the good breast health information sites require a credit card.”