[WEB4LIB] RE: Biased Censorship Continues at Publib

Dan Lester dan at 84.com
Sat May 8 19:01:06 EDT 1999


At 05:14 PM 5/7/99 -0700, Hillel Weintraub wrote:
>Personally, I feel that our mailing list can afford to be open to this 
>discussion, since
>basically it is about censorship and access to information.

Guaranteed to be my last comments on this topic:

1. Yes, libraries and censorship are issues in our world.  So are hunger, 
pollution, wars, and lots of other interesting things.  But, this 
particular issue has nothing to do with the WEB for libraries.  In 
addition, you'd be assuming that the owners of the list in question read 
this one, cared what was said here, or even care what the rest of us think.

2. Moderation of a list is no more "censorship" than the New York Times 
failing to publish every submitted letter, or Library Quarterly failing to 
publish every submitted article.

cheers

dan

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