Archive for the 'filters' Category
Parents take son out of school over controversial book
March 12th, 2008WWAY - “A book on a local ninth grade reading list has some parents so upset, they took their son out of school.”
Library porn incident prompts call for filters
March 1st, 2008Daily Tribune - “This is the one guy we know about,” Drinkwine said. “You can talk all you want about freedom, but in my mind in no way, shape or form should those computers be able to produce anything illegal, illicit or detrimental.”
Please define “illicit” and “detrimental”
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Web porn hard to halt in libraries
January 13th, 2008The Columbus Dispatch - “Foiled filters, other factors hinder enforcement”
Human Filtering….Kinda
December 2nd, 2007On ‘The Golden Compass - “It was not banned,” says Farnau, “but it was taken off the shelves. It was removed as a check-out item. If a parent would like to come in and request to check out the book from the school, we would, of course, allow that.”
More On Human Filtering
November 27th, 2007Good point - “If every book were to be taken off the shelves because someone considered it offensive, libraries would be empty.”
Opining About Human Filtering
November 25th, 2007Library board takes appropriate action: None
More on Filtering
November 13th, 2007Library Mole - “Kids to the right; perverts to the left”
Heh
More on Filtering at SJPL
October 24th, 2007Editorial - “Responding to a minor nuisance at the downtown library by dampening the rights of inquiry and speech of all patrons at every city library is an unacceptable trade-off.”
Bad Filtering
September 12th, 2007BBC - “China’s firewall that tries to sanitise web browsing is much more porous than previously thought, says a study.”
Access Denied
July 20th, 2007Andy Carvin: “Here we were, a group of educators participating in a professional development seminar trying to discuss the role that Web 2.0 sites can play in civic education - at a presidential library, no less - and we were denied access to the information and tools we needed to have that discussion.”