I’m going to chime in a bit late here to the heated conversation about Orson Scott Card getting this year’s Margaret A. Edwards Award to say this:
1. From what I’ve read of Orson Scott Card’s publicly-stated views, I find his beliefs and opinions reprehensible.
2. I first read Ender’s Game for a class in library school. […]
Utterly despicable.
New federal legislation says universities must agree to provide not just deterrents but also “alternatives” to peer-to-peer piracy, such as paying monthly subscription fees to the music industry for their students, on penalty of losing all financial aid for their students…
The Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) applauded the proposal, which is embedded in […]
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 the […]
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 bill.
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.)
Maya of Mobilize.org wrote me and asked to spread the word about fighting DOPA. Here’s what she said:
Mobilize.org is launching a new campaign in response to Congress’ attempt to
censor the communication of our generation. We have created the action alert
below and built a website, www.mobilize.org/SOS. We are hoping to get as
much grassroots action as possible […]
