Librarian's attitudes toward filtering: The turning tide

[Burt, David]

It's definitely worth noting that every time the filtering debate comes
up on this list, more and more librarians express pro-filtering
sentiments.  Librarians I know in "Real Life" are increasingly willing
to openly support the idea of true, meaningful selection of Internet
resources, and are rejecting the stuporous "everything on the net or
nothing" false dichotomy, which turns librarian's selection role into
that of a dumbed-down public access port, and standing up to the moral
arrogance and professional stupidity of defending porn in children's
rooms.

I  applaud  every librarian who has had the courage to brave being
called a thought policeman, cybernotsi, censor, collaborator, etc. among
other nice things the anti-filtering extremists have called us on this
list,  and stand up for their selection rights, and most of all, for
common sense.

Let's keep up the fight, we're winning.

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          David Burt, Information Technology Librarian 
          The Lake Oswego Public Library 
          706 Fourth Street, Lake Oswego, OR 97034
          URL:          http://www.ci.oswego.or.us/library/library.htm
          Phone:     (503) 635-0392 
          Fax:           (503) 635-4171 
          E-mail:      dburt at ci.oswego.or.us