Censorship

[Matthew M. Benzing]

I used to be on the ALA's side on these issues, but a few encounters with people like Pat Ganntt, who would rather mock those who disagree with them than dispute the issues, have made me think a little deeper about these things.

Those who cry "first amendment" at any attempt to protect children from the sick deviants who haunt the darker corners of the web are little different than those who cry "second amendment" at any attempt to keep murder weapons under any sort of reasonable control. Absolute liberty becomes leads to the Hobbesian jungle, where the uncontolled trash on the media makes life nasty and brutish, and uncontrolled guns keep it short.

Just using my first amendment rights to comment on an issue that directly concerns libraries and the web (at the risk of inspiring another incoherent stream of unconsciousness from Gantt).
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Matthew M. Benzing
Information Systems Librarian
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Libraries
Troy, NY 12180
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