Electronic Brown Wrappers [former TV watcher and current phone user offers counterpoint]

[scharles]

I think the difference here is that most people have telephones, and TV's.
Internet access is currently not so universal.

SC

At 07:38 AM 6/7/97 -0700, D Burt wrote:
...
>Another "service" analogy is also helpful.  When I attended library
>school at the University of Washington, the undergraduate library had a
>bank of TV viewing booths. But their access was restricted to only CNN,
>PBS, and local news.  This seems like a pretty good analog to filtered
>Internet access.  No only do I not remember anyone complaining about
>"censorship", I don't remember anyone even mentioning that this might
>theoretically be censorship.
>
>Clearly, librarians feel comfortable with offering only portions of
>access to other media, but not with the Internet.  I've yet to hear a
>compelling reason why they shouldn't be allowed to treat the Internet
>the same way.
>