Thursday, March 06, 2003

The myth of technology We have a state version of CIPA making its way through the legislative process.  It is identical to the federal bill and did not make the cut last year.  One of the problems is that the proponents believe that filters do just as advertised.  And, when you ask them if they would approved tax dollars buying software that only works 75-80% of the time, they respond by claiming protecting children deserves some effort.  Course, they don't have a good answer when you point out that the parents complaining of seeing porn sites (and the definition of porn ranges from victoria secret ads to the real stuff) are parents who go to libraries with filter (see, they don't work).  Funny, when you try to get funding for a sound info tech project -- they all say the stuff never works as advertised so why fund it.  Sides Debate Web Access in Libraries. WASHINGTON, March 5 Two visions of the Internet competed today at the Supreme Court in an argument on whether the government can require public libraries to install antipornography filters as the price for receiving federal financing for Internet access. By Linda Greenhouse. [New York Times: Politics] comment [] 7:09:09 AM