Black pages

[Leo Eugene Spesard]

The provisions of the legislation provide some protection to service and
content providers, but only if you take an active role in censoring
information.  Do you think your library has the time and resources to
supervise everyone using a browser?  Are you going to have to turn of the 
option to download files because you can't prevent the downloading of materials 
that are now baned?  This bill puts significant burdens on libraries that will 
either cause you to eliminate services or divert resources toward censorship of 
them.  Will your taxpayers like that?

Aside from the sense of moral outrage that many of us feel about this law, 
there are pratical reasons for libraries to oppose it.


> Beyond these considerations, I do not feel that it is my role to use
> pages that I developed with taxpayer money to grind my own
> particular political ax.  For all I know, the majority of the taxpayers
> who employ me may think censoring the web is a terrific idea.
> But even if they don't, I should no more turn my pages black than
> I should tile a pic of Hillary C. for wallpaper.
> 
> Joe
> 
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> Joe Schallan, MLS                                 jschall at glenpub.lib.az.us
> Reference Librarian and Webmaster
> Glendale (Arizona) Public Library
> http://www.maricopa.gov/glendale/localgov/library/library.htm
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> 
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Gene Spesard <lspesard at library.Arizona.EDU>
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