Here’s some interesting links from this week. I have some stuff to say about the manga/porn case (in sum: a fair chunk of some manga is porn, and that’s completely OK), but that will have to wait until I’ve got some more time. From Boing boing: Apple gets into the book banning business Apple’s refused…
A beautifully articulate rant by Neil Gaiman on why we must defend stuff that we personally find icky: Freedom to write, freedom to read, freedom to own material that you believe is worth defending means you’re going to have to stand up for stuff you don’t believe is worth defending, even stuff you find actively…
Unshelved is the only daily comic strip set in a public library. Recently, they had a great series of comics about a librarian dealing with a patron who is looking at “offensive” material on the Internet. See http://www.unshelved.com/archive.aspx?strip=20080324 and subsequent days for a novel approach to a perennial issue ….
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