County May Allow Parents to Bar Children From Internet

[Jennifer_Reiswig at UCSDLIBRARY.ucsd.edu]

     For those of you who have been wondering what any of this had to do 
     with children being barred from the Internet...
     
     Since it is legal to reproduce TEENY WEENY BITS (technical legal term, 
     sorry) of published material, I'm going to quote a sentence from the 
     article so that this entire thread will not be a substance-free zone. 
     
     "Under the policy being considered by the [Fairfax] county's
     library board, a child's parents or guardians would have the right
     to notify the library system that they did not want him or her to be
     given access to the Internet. Children 13 and older still would
     have unrestricted access."

By Victoria Benning 
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, October 15, 1997; Page B01

Some of the opposition to the plan centers around the impracticality of 
enforcing such a policy when the truth is that many kids do not go to the 
library with their parents.  Others want the age level raised, others want 
it eliminated. And of course, FFL wants them to choose filtering instead.

So now can we get back to talking about filtering PLEASE?

Jenny Reiswig
UCSD Biomedical Library
jreiswig at ucsd.edu



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Subject: County May Allow Parents to Bar Children From Internet
Author:  CMUNSON at aaas.org at @UCSD
Date:    10/15/97 7:14 AM


Let me first say that I do not agree with the new re-posting guidelines 
implemented by this list's administrator. I think the decision was made in 
an undemocratic fashion and promotes a very narrow interpretation of fair 
use, especially in the medium of listservs.
     
Since that is his perogative and since nobody else has complained, I will 
respect that decision.
     
Here's a URL for a story of interest:
Fairfax May Allow Parents to Bar Children From Internet 
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/digest/local3.htm
     
Given the nature of newspaper web sites, this URL will be invalid after 
October 15, 1997. If you still want to see this article after that date, go 
to the Washington Post and search for it. It would have been easier just to 
mail the damn article to this list.
     
Chuck0
     
     
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