James Nimmo writes: \”The Oklahoma County library (of Tin Drum fame), Metropolitan Library System
(MLS), has voted to impose censoring filters on adult terminals. Filters
were always in place for youth cards, while adults were offered a choice
between filtered and unfiltered internet access, but that choice has been
nixed.
The vote was not unanimous–three stalwart commissioners stood up for
intellectual freedom or at least they are trying to squelch the First
Amendment law suit that will be filed.\”
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James Nimmo writes: \”The Oklahoma County library (of Tin Drum fame), Metropolitan Library System
(MLS), has voted to impose censoring filters on adult terminals. Filters
were always in place for youth cards, while adults were offered a choice
between filtered and unfiltered internet access, but that choice has been
nixed.
The vote was not unanimous–three stalwart commissioners stood up for
intellectual freedom or at least they are trying to squelch the First
Amendment law suit that will be filed.\”
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\”In my opinion, the majority of
censoring commissioners were wanting to keep the approximately $157,000 that
MLS receives in e-rate reimbursements and to also appear to be in
compliance with CIPA, even though that law is being challenged. The
commissioners, I think, are being lead by the nose again by the local
censorship group redundantly named Oklahomans for Children and Families
(OCAF.) This group hoodwinked the Oklahoma County DA, and City Council into
shelling out over $750,000 in payment
for damage claims when the movie \”The Tin Drum\” was unlawfully seized from
the public library and Blockbuster stores in Oklahoma County at the
insistence of OCAF. It would appear that the public library in Oklahoma
County is going to be the fall guy for OCAF\’s blinkered, theocratic
maneuvers this time around. The temple priest in charge of OCAF has
compared the Nobel Prize Committee to child pornograpers when the Literature
Prize was awarded to Gunther Grass, author of \”The Tin Drum.\”
James Nimmo\”
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