"Reader's Block": Internet Censorship In RI Public Libraries

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"Reader's Block": Internet Censorship In RI Public Libraries
http://www.edu-cyberpg.com/Technology/censor.html

A REPORT PREPARED BY THE RHODE ISLAND AFFILIATE, AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES
UNION
by Amy Myrick, Program and Development Coordinator at the RI ACLU.

  "X. CONCLUSION Some ten months after its commencement, Internet
   blocking in Rhode Island public libraries presents a mixed, but
   surprisingly troubling, picture. CLAN itself the group responsible
   for administering the blocking software has harbored mistaken
   notions that the filters could be "turned off" only on a
   site-by-site basis, lest compliance be compromised. Individual
   librarians show similar confusion. Pleading technical handicaps,
   many have failed to familiarize themselves with the blocking
   software and its deactivation options. Those that lack this
   knowledge are placing themselves at the mercy of a private company's
   technology that should never be permitted to take control."

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