Filtering "education"

[Phil Meyer]

On Wed, 11 Jun 1997, Burt, David wrote:

> The trouble with "educating the public about filtering" is that such
> "education" is usually heavily one-sided and loaded with disinformation.

Talk about 'heavily one-sided and loaded with disinformation'...

> Library patrons are told whoppers like "all filtering relies on keyword
> blocking, therefore, it is unavoidable that most information on breast
> cancer will be blocked because it contains the word breast".
> 

Please fill us in....which products do NOT use keywork blocking.

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