Posted in filtering, internet, public library on November 30, 2007 | No Comments »
Last week the London Public Library Board voted 5-4 in favour of continuing to filter most adult workstations.
Cory Doctorow nicely summed up the problem with filters in an article in the Guardian:
These systems are failures because they continue to allow the bad stuff through. They’re disasters because they block mountains of good stuff.
See my earlier [...]
Posted in Little Sister's, censorship, filtering, internet, porn, public library, violence on November 22, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The management team of the London Public Library recommended that adult workstations continue to be filtered with a commercial internet filter (Netsweeper). They had done a pilot project to see what patrons and staff thought of having many adult workstations filtered. Not children’s workstations, but adult ones.
I like that they are transparent in [...]
Posted in censorship, government censorship, internet on November 2, 2007 | No Comments »
I’m really liking CBC’s radio program, Search Engine. There are a few annoying things, like how two point oh they are, and how the word crowdsourcing is used at least 5 times in each half hour episode, but overall I really like it.
Yesterday’s episode had author, activist and Boing-boinger Cory Doctorow on for [...]
Posted in filtering, internet on November 2, 2007 | No Comments »
I noticed an interesting library-related post on Boingboing today about the San Clemente public library’s filtered and unfiltered internet access signage. The comments section is filled with people weighing in on the merits of internet access in public libraries, the potential ‘abuse’ of internet access by patrons, the potential violation of privacy by librarians [...]
Posted in censorship, filtering, international, internet on October 18, 2007 | 1 Comment »
The recent military crackdown in Burma got me thinking about access to information around the world. The media also commented on the role that the internet played in getting uncensored information out about the monk’s protests against the military dictatorship as well as how the internet was essentially shut off to stop the flow [...]
