ALA on Filtering

Jon Lebkowsky jonl at onr.com
Fri Jul 4 14:30:23 EDT 1997


I've just heard that the Council of the American Library Association passed
a resolution affirming "that the use of filtering software by libraries to
block access to Constitutionally protected speech abridges the _Library
Bill of Rights_."

thx
Jon L.



Jon Lebkowsky // jonl at onr.com

"The interest in encouraging freedom of expression in a democratic society
outweighs any theoretical but unproven benefit of censorship." -- Justice
Stevens, Supreme Court Opinion in Reno v ACLU.


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