tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060593324936581367.post5158861373347132057..comments2024-03-28T04:49:07.788-04:00Comments on SafeLibraries®: Twin Students of Different Mothers Want Internet FiltersSafeLibraries®http://www.blogger.com/profile/06756725065032196698noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060593324936581367.post-89082494481504304122010-02-26T10:14:48.517-05:002010-02-26T10:14:48.517-05:00See also:
"Cleary's Proposal Spotlighted...See also:<br /><br />"<a href="http://campusmajority.blogspot.com/2010/02/clearys-proposal-spotlighted-on.html" rel="nofollow">Cleary's Proposal Spotlighted on SafeLibraries Blog</a>," by <b>Jeffrey Miles</b>, <i>The Campus Majority: Gustavus Adolphus College</i>, 26 February 2010.SafeLibraries®https://www.blogger.com/profile/06756725065032196698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060593324936581367.post-90383774113212980792010-02-26T10:01:15.240-05:002010-02-26T10:01:15.240-05:00Phil,
Welcome, and you are welcome to some spotli...Phil,<br /><br />Welcome, and you are welcome to some spotlight.<br /><br />Actually, you need even more spotlight. I see you are serious about this as evidenced by your writing about it and by your speaking with the college president. Even better, you are running for school senate president and have included it in your platform.<br /><br />Allow me to help you further. Let me write an entire blog post just on your efforts, or consider writing a guest blog post that I will post here and that you can use to comment back and forth with your fellow students. I allow anyone to comment (other than for spam and personal attack) so it should be easy.<br /><br />What you are doing is very significant. You are a young man who understands the value of Internet filters properly applied and maintained. You want to bring this to the educational environment. That is outstanding. <br /><br />You see, the American Library Association [ALA] works very hard to convince people not to use Internet filters. The ALA argues that even though filters are constitutionally approved by the US Supreme Court in a case the ALA lost, people should still not use them for reasons that either no longer apply or for reasons already raised before the Court and rejected.<br /><br />You will find the objections raised to the use of Internet filters will be either old arguments that no longer apply, like that you cannot research breast cancer, or legal arguments that have already been asked and answered by the Court, like it would be embarrassing (and thereby unconstitutional) to ask for a web site to be temporarily unfiltered. <br /><br />You will then find the promotion of things claimed to work better than filters, but nothing does. Privacy screens? People can see right through them. Security cameras? No one watches them and rapes are being taped. Acceptable Use Policies? Lovely idea, but criminals by definition do not comply with social expectations. Computers arranged so librarians can observe them better? Useless, since the ALA trains librarians not to make such decisions. You have to love the case of a security guard (or was it a maintenance worker) who stopped a six year old from viewing porn and the library director corrected him and had him put the porn site back on for the child.<br /><br />So, Phil, make me aware of everything you are doing on this issue, send me links or actual documents, and I will post them. Or I will let you post things. And if ALA acolytes start spouting the usual false reasons to oppose legal and properly applied Internet filters, give me a call and I'll see if I can assist any.<br /><br />Please read the following completely through to understand the issues and prepare for the false and repetitive arguments presented by ALA acolytes: <a href="http://laws.findlaw.com/us/539/194.html" rel="nofollow">US v. ALA</a>. <br /><br />It also wouldn't hurt to read how even the ACLU (a losing party in US v. ALA) now says filters are 95% effective and no longer block health-related information: <a href="http://www.paed.uscourts.gov/documents/opinions/07D0346P.pdf" rel="nofollow">ACLU v. Gonzales</a>. <br /><br />And let me say the ALA/ACLU lost US v. ALA, but the ALA spins the loss as a win to justify its huge loss of money at the hands of its former <i>de facto</i> leader. I have sources to back up this statement and the others I have made in this comment.<br /><br />Enjoy the experience, Phil! Do not take anything the ALA acolytes say on face value--check it out and make sure it actually applies. Usually it's legal legerdemain. It's you and your campus against 40 years of accumulated knowledge on how to fool local populations into doing what the ALA wants by getting the local population to think like the ALA.SafeLibraries®https://www.blogger.com/profile/06756725065032196698noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5060593324936581367.post-41977113726496647082010-02-26T02:45:58.100-05:002010-02-26T02:45:58.100-05:00Hi,
This is Phil and I was just connected your bl...Hi, <br />This is Phil and I was just connected your blog post! I don't know where this got picked up on, but thanks for giving it some spotlight. <br /><br />As an update, I have proposed this via the school newspaper, and talked to the college president a little bit about it. Further, it has come out on my platform for student senate president. <br /><br />So the word is getting out... now the school just needs the incentive to do act on it.Right@GAChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11350406012762075164noreply@blogger.com