David Burt completed an undergraduate degree in history and a masters of library science from the University of Washington in 1992.

Judith Krug, director of the American Library Association's Office for Intellectual Freedom, stated that the report was "inflammatory and sensational", based on an agenda "to control what everyone reads, views, and listens to.

"[9] Dangerous Access 2000 was entered into the Congressional Record[10] in 2000 in support of the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA), a law Congress passed in 2000 requiring public libraries that receive certain types of federal funding to purchase filtering software.

Copyright Office in the 2003 DMCA exemption hearings[13] In 2001, the Department of Justice legal team charged with defending CIPA hired Burt as a consultant.

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