Posted on 10/31/2004 5:01:57 AM PST by mcconnell
Yesterday I had the good usual weekly talk with my mother over the phone. She lives in Labelle, Florida, not too far east of Ft. Myers. She had just finished her 6 hr all-volunteer phone drive to help get President Bush re-elected. It went pretty well. She then proceeded to tell me that a few days earlier she tried to view some of my postings that had gotten on the Blogs for Bush website at the local Labelle public library's computer. You'd only have 30 minutes to log on if other people are wanting to use the computer. The first thing she did was type in the address, www.blogsforbush.com and pressed the return key. Next thing she saw was page saying that the website is blocked for viewing. She was a bit puzzled
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Censorship. Pure and simple. The ALA does not approve. The only computer blocks at my public library are on the children's computers. On the adult side it's wide open, even to the raunchiest websites.
This deserves a letter to the editor in her local paper with a cc to ALA (even though ALA leans to the left, censorship is censorship and the ALA is required to condemn it).
Thanks!
Ya know some of these web filters are pretty stringent and we probably have so much respect for the president that we forget that his first name hase other ahem.. meanings shal we say. I think their web page blocker is probably set either to high or you can ask the librarian to ad the page as being safe.
Yes, I work at a public library and all at our library we are allowed to disable filtering for adults but they have to ask. Libraries that recieve a certain type of federal funding have to install filters - it's the law.
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