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ALA Cancels Filter Meeting
posted by mpawlo on Saturday July 19, @02:14AM
from the filter-this dept.
Civil Liberties Anonymous Coward writes "The organization gave no reason for canceling the meeting. But the ALA's immediate past president, Mitch Freedman, had raised objections to it Thursday in an internal e-mail discussion list. The order to cancel came from the group's 13-member executive board, which Freedman sits on, later in the day.``Simply, having any discussion whatsoever with the filtering companies legitimizes them, thus giving them a legitimacy that ALA has never recognized,'' Freedman wrote to fellow librarians on the ALA Council.

Read more in an Associated Press story"

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    too bad (Score:1)
    by scubacuda ({scubacuda} {at} {iname.com}) on Saturday July 19, @12:55PM (#850)
    User #483 Info | http://www.greplaw.org/
    That's too bad it was cancelled.

    I was really looking forward to ALA members taking the content filtering folk to task on several issues, namely:

    --filtering non-pornographic URLs (particularly ones that oppose their politics)
    --their FUD campaign

    There are a thousand forms of subversion, but few can equal the convenience and immediacy of a cream pie. Noel Godin

    Censorware company hardball or not? (Score:1)
    by Seth Finkelstein ({sethf} {at} {sethf.com}) on Saturday July 19, @03:30PM (#852)
    User #31 Info | http://sethf.com/
    Hmm - what makes you think that the people who called the meeting, would ask the censorware [sethf.com] companies any tough questions? Note the meeting was organized under very dubious circumstances, and it didn't indicate any taking to task was on the agenda ...

    Humanity has the stars in its future, and that future is too important to be lost under the burden of juvenile folly and ignorant superstition. - Isaac Asimov

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