Cedar

Intellectual freedom is really my only political soapbox. As someone in a profession that advocates equality in information access regardless of class, age, economic situation, etc., I can never seem to shut up about censorship, book banning, Internet filtering, privacy of library records (the PATRIOT Act is not my friend). Being the curious person I am, I wanted to toss a few questions to the masses:

1) What do you think of CIPA, the Children's Internet Protection Act? Under this act, all public libraries that receive federal funding are now required to install censorware on all their computers. All of them, not just the ones intended for use by children. This would include all computers to be used by staff. The filters may be turned off at a patron's request for "bona fide research purposes."

2) Is book banning ever an appropriate thing?

3) In a recent newspaper article, and I wish I could remember where I read it, a majority of people polled said that the First Amendment was "too liberal." What do you think of that?

-Cedar
the ever nonpolitical

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Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
I am large. I contain multitudes.

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