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Here we go again! Senator Ted Stevens, who has already shown such an exquisite understanding of how the internet works, has introduced a bill that looks exactly like DOPA, with some extra anti-porn legislation written into it for good measure. Any minute now, Helen Lovejoy will come running in, screaming, “Will someone please think of [...]
One of my favorite authors is Ray Bradbury. His manic enthusiasm for life, art and what many people consider “trash culture” (like monster movies and carnivals and comics), his approach to writing, his beautiful beautiful prose, his wide-eyed race towards tomorrow. I love the 10-year-old boy in the old man’s frame. His novel Fahrenheit 451 [...]
Happy Banned Books Week! I won’t actually be reading any banned or challenged books this week (I’m already in the middle of at least 5 books right now), but I absolutely support other people reading whatever they want, whether I approve of the book or not.
Another great condemnation of DOPA: “The Moral Panic over Social-Networking Sites.”
On CBSNews.com, Larry Magid writes about why DOPA is so incredibly wrongheaded. Are y’all in DC paying attention and taking notes?
Aleah makes an excellent point about DOPA that I haven’t seen anyone else make yet: “This targets lower income Americans — those folks already getting more than their fair share of the shaft — because they can’t afford a home computer or internet access.” One more reason to hate DOPA.
I woke up the other morning and got online to find I had an emergency message from Libraryman. It seems that someone had joined the Kansas Libraries & Librarians Flickr group and posted some pictures that had nothing to do with Kansas libraries and everything to do with nakey crotch shots. Thanks to Michael watching [...]
DOPA passed, with only 15–fifteen!–voting against it. My own representative, who is usually one of the good guy Democrats, voted for it. Never underestimate how stupidly a politician will vote on issues of “morality.” UPDATE: Dave King does a great job of breaking down some of the main reasons why DOPA is a stupid, damaging [...]
Yes, everyone and their parents have been blogging about it, but as an enemy of the USA PATRIOT Act and someone concerned about free speech issues, it would be remiss of me to not mention that the four Connecticut librarians who took on the US Goverment spoke out for the first time yesterday about the [...]
Chris Harris speaks the truth: Filter a website, and you protect a student for a day. Educate students about online safety in a real world environment, and you protect your child for a lifetime. (Found via washtublibrarian.)
