On Tue, 16 Jan 2001 09:57:39 -0800 (PST) Jen Hamilton
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Has any English class in American High Schools
> included a book on Gay and Lesbian issues in their list
> of required reading?
Mine did.
> Do you really believe that
> filtering the internet is any different than the current
> censorship with which libraries and schools are already
> plagued? There is filtering software that allows each
> individual library and school the ability to decide what
> is and isn't filtered. At some point, _someone_ decides
> what materials are allowed through the library doors.
The problem here is that I've heard that filtering software
often contains the biases of the groups who support/wrote it
-- there's blocking software out there that blocks sites
such as that of the ACLU and the democratic party -- that's
information that (hopefully) wouldn't be forbidden to users
of public/school libraries. In addition, filtering software
also often blocks sites containing words deemed
inappropriate -- this leads to blocking of sites about
sexual abuse, breast cancer, etc, etc. So yes, this is
indeed different from the censorship that already
(unfortunately) exists in our libraries/schools.
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