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City Council Votes Against Filters in the San Jose Public Library

April 23rd, 2009

LibrarianInBlack – “I am jubilant to report that last night, near midnight after 4 hours of debate, the San Jose City Council voted 8-3 against implementing filters in the public libraries.  In addition, the proposal voted for requires that before filters should be considered in the libraries, other child safety budget priorities must be met [...]

More on Filtering

November 4th, 2007

John Woolfolk – “Porn star and former California gubernatorial candidate Mary Carey gets blocked. So do circumcision critics. But a pantyless Britney Spears? Not always.”
California is going through some rough times these days. I wonder if Arnold’s old shenanigans gets blocked too.

More on the San Jose Filtering Dispute

October 28th, 2007

Scott Herhold – “Second-hand porn will linger”

Filtering Revisited

October 21st, 2007

John Woolfolk – “A decade after San Jose rejected blocking access to sexually explicit material on library computers, a city councilman says it’s time to reconsider that decision.”


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