ALA on Filtering

Kristine Buchanan kbucha at fiat.gslis.utexas.edu
Sun Jul 6 17:20:20 EDT 1997


 Three cheers for the ALA!!

 Hip Hip Hooray!!



On Fri, 4 Jul 1997, Jon Lebkowsky wrote:

> 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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