Comments on: ACLU: Internet content filters, not for governments to decide

By: don warner saklad

don warner saklad — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 05:30:34 +0000

Ironical, our public library leadership in Cambridge Massachusetts is in the advance in some areas of intellectual freedom but backwards in others, for example restricting access with a deflecting circuitous reference desk service for public city government documents. We need more librarians on the front lines of library services who’re knowledgeable about information policies.

By: jessamyn

jessamyn — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:15:24 +0000

They seemed to do pretty well in the COPPA case. You of all people should know that nothing is permanent in the world of jurisprudence. Currently, libraries that do not receive federal funding do not need to filter. There’s a lot of ground for working on this issue.

By: Dan Kleinman

Dan Kleinman — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 02:05:30 +0000

The ACLU already lost on this issue in US v. ALA in 2003 in the US Supreme Court.