Cyber Patrol & Disinformation: was Re: Filtering "edu

[Dianne L Parham]

So you are saying that the elected representatives of the community 
should not determine filtering, but you should.

Interesting.

Dianne Parham
San Diego Public Library

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

> 
>  ----------
> From: Burt, David
> To: CMUNSON at aaas.org
> Subject: RE: Re[2]: Cyber Patrol & Disinformation: was Re: Filtering
> "edu
> Date: Wednesday, June 11, 1997 1:34PM
> 
> Chuck "Blocked by CyberPatrol" Munson wrote:
> 
>     > Sure, a library may not "choose" to block that category, but what
> if
>      >someone does the "choosing" for them? Take the recent case of
> Boston,
>      >where the mayor decreed that CyberPatrol be installed in the
> public
>      >libraries. I'm curious as to how the librarians reacted to that
>      >mandate. Did the mayor stipulate which filters were to be
> "enabled?"
>      >Did the librarians enable all of the filters, just to be safe?
> 
>      I remember seeing a post, maybe it wasn't on this list, from
> someone about how Boston decides which categories to block.  I recall
> that they have some  committee. I remember reading that when Austin
> first installed CyberPatrol, they accidently put all the categories on,
> and got a passel of complaints from patrons.  They then, I believe,
> switched to only the smut categories, but they still have to do some
> unblocking.  See the article "To filter or not to filter" in this
> month's American Libraries.
> 
> I didn't approve of the Boston situation, not because of the filtering
> but because the mayor imposed it.  Government agencies should not be
> deciding what gets blocked, library administrators should.  At least
> there's *something* we agree on!
> 
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>           The Lake Oswego Public Library
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