Library Lawsuit

[Greg MacGowan]

At 08:13 PM 6/1/98 -0700, David Burt wrote:
>That's because the filtering controversy really isn't an engineering
>problem, it's a moral one.  What really matters in the debate isn't so much
>technical details, but values.  And you can't have a discussion about values
>based on technical details.

The technical details become relevant when they create a conflict between
values, in this case, the value of shielding minors from potentially
offensive material vs. the value of easily obtaining important, acceptable,
relevant, and even practical information that may be inadvertently filtered
out (e.g., breast cancer). The real issue is how your values system
balances these two conflicting considerations.

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Greg S. MacGowan
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Brandeis University Libraries
Brandeis University
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