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Re: Librarians Take Filters Into Their Own Hands (Score: 0) by Anonymous on Friday, July 04 @ 08:38:51 EDT | Professor Edward Felton
modestly proposed this [www.freedom-to-tinker.com] last week. It seems like a good idea to have a Free Software CIPA compliant filter that the librarians can use. Ed points out that there are four problems with commercial censorware:
- They block some unobjectionable material.
- They fail to block some material that is obscene or harmful to minors.
- They try to block material that Congress does not require to be blocked, such as certain political speech.
- They don't let you find out what they block.
Obviously, 1 and 2 are limitations of the filters, but 3 and 4 are not problems that a Free Software implementation would have. |
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Difficult to find motivation (Score: 0) by Anonymous on Sunday, July 06 @ 14:07:02 EDT | It seems like a relatively simple project but I find it hard to get motivated to create a lesser evil. I fear that it might actually be counter-productive by lessening the pressure against government censorship. |
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Re: Librarians Take Filters Into Their Own Hands (Score: 1) by Josh (josh@causingeffect.com) on Tuesday, July 08 @ 18:50:22 EDT (User Info | Send a Message) http://www.causingeffect.com/blog | If librarians do take it into their own hands and find a non-proprietary solution, what requirements would they have to meet in order to satisfy the requirements of CIPA? Is it based on success rate? |
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