cyberfiltering: just say no

[Jennifer Heise]

DBurt has dropped the challenge. He says that more and more librarians are
speaking up in favor of filtering (whether or not we know or care what the
filter providers think is worthy of filtering).

I, and I believe others, have dropped out of this fight because it's obvious
that people like DBurt and Ronnie Morgan think cybercensorship is a Good Thing
(tm) and none of us are going to convince them otherwise.

Unfortunately, we're giving the wrong impression by not arguing. "Keep up the
fight, we're winning" says DBurt. So, for the record: I think cyberfiltering
is the wrong thing to do on public Internet terminals. Anybody else?

Jennifer Heise,                             Net: jahb at lehigh.edu    \
Senior Specialist, Web Management, LUIR     Phone:(610)758-3072   / /
Linderman Library (30), Lehigh University, Bethlehem PA 18015     \
My opinions are my own. No one else would HAVE them anyway.

"We are often considered society's gatekeepers, but librarians are actually
the gateways. We are the one profession dedicated to ensuring the right to
know. We must never lose sight of this mission despite the seductive siren
songs of our information age's mythology." --  Patricia Glass Schuman