ChuckB writes, “The Register has a story, EC
seeks to stamp out Net child porn, racism and spam, which reports on the EU’s Safer Internet Plus initiative. “Children should have the right to use the internet freely to chat,
to learn or to play games, but to move freely online, children must be protected from the risk of being exploited by adults.” (Erkki Liikanen, EU enterprise & information
society minister) The initiative is directed at racism & violence as well as pornography, and filtering is one of four approaches it takes to the issue. For more information, see the Safer Internet Plus website.”
- Next Quick demographics & maps for Congressional Districts
- Previous PMLA Alternative Source Citations
Recent Posts
- E-Books Can Subvert Book Bans, But Corporate Profit-Seeking Stands in the Way March 10, 2024
- Ten Stories That Shaped 2023 December 15, 2023
- War Sows Disruption at the National Book Awards November 16, 2023
- “No one else is saving it”: the fight to protect a historic music collection November 16, 2023
- No, I Don’t Want to Join Your Book Club November 9, 2023
- Iowa election 2023: Pella Public Library retains independence November 9, 2023
- A door at a Swedish library was accidentally left open 446 people came in, borrowed 245 books. Every single one was returned November 9, 2023
Recent Comments
- Examining Arab and Muslim librarians in fiction – Pop Culture Library Review on Librarian Combats Muslim Stereotypes
- St. Paul libraries face moment of reckoning – LISNews – News For Librarians on Secret and mysterious libraries
- Ellie on Just How Gross Are Library Books, Exactly?
- Prodigious1one on The Teaching Librarian Versus The Teacher
- Jason on Ten Stories That Shaped 2019
- centaurea on Libraries using Internet Trust Tools
LISNews Archives
- March 2024 (1)
- December 2023 (1)
- November 2023 (5)
- October 2023 (1)
- September 2023 (1)
- August 2023 (22)
- February 2023 (3)
- January 2023 (20)
- December 2022 (6)
- February 2022 (3)
- December 2021 (1)
- December 2020 (1)
- July 2020 (11)
- June 2020 (11)
- January 2020 (1)
- December 2019 (2)
- November 2019 (4)
- October 2019 (1)
- June 2019 (1)
- May 2019 (4)
- April 2019 (3)
- March 2019 (11)
- February 2019 (41)
- January 2019 (31)
- December 2018 (6)
- November 2018 (11)
- October 2018 (15)
- September 2018 (9)
- August 2018 (22)
- July 2018 (1)
- June 2018 (1)
- May 2018 (7)
- April 2018 (8)
- March 2018 (5)
- February 2018 (17)
- January 2018 (13)
- December 2017 (8)
- November 2017 (16)
- October 2017 (18)
- September 2017 (11)
- August 2017 (8)
- July 2017 (8)
- June 2017 (21)
- May 2017 (39)
- April 2017 (22)
- March 2017 (15)
- February 2017 (21)
- January 2017 (40)
- December 2016 (20)
- November 2016 (9)
- October 2016 (20)
- September 2016 (48)
- August 2016 (48)
- July 2016 (55)
- June 2016 (61)
- May 2016 (39)
- April 2016 (67)
- March 2016 (81)
- February 2016 (85)
- January 2016 (69)
- December 2015 (90)
- November 2015 (126)
- October 2015 (107)
- September 2015 (85)
- August 2015 (42)
- July 2015 (32)
- June 2015 (35)
- May 2015 (39)
- April 2015 (14)
- March 2015 (60)
- February 2015 (75)
- January 2015 (44)
- December 2014 (30)
- November 2014 (39)
- October 2014 (43)
- September 2014 (30)
- August 2014 (36)
- July 2014 (59)
- June 2014 (46)
- May 2014 (62)
- April 2014 (58)
- March 2014 (52)
- February 2014 (37)
- January 2014 (42)
- December 2013 (41)
- November 2013 (25)
- October 2013 (43)
- September 2013 (28)
- August 2013 (32)
- July 2013 (61)
- June 2013 (51)
- May 2013 (50)
- April 2013 (52)
- March 2013 (68)
- February 2013 (62)
- January 2013 (62)
- December 2012 (53)
- November 2012 (64)
- October 2012 (111)
- September 2012 (109)
- August 2012 (128)
- July 2012 (57)
- June 2012 (75)
- May 2012 (163)
- April 2012 (158)
- March 2012 (109)
- February 2012 (125)
- January 2012 (136)
- December 2011 (109)
- November 2011 (74)
- October 2011 (82)
- September 2011 (95)
- August 2011 (106)
- July 2011 (93)
- June 2011 (102)
- May 2011 (94)
- April 2011 (105)
- March 2011 (100)
- February 2011 (92)
- January 2011 (110)
- December 2010 (124)
- November 2010 (83)
- October 2010 (118)
- September 2010 (115)
- August 2010 (110)
- July 2010 (108)
- June 2010 (113)
- May 2010 (78)
- April 2010 (121)
- March 2010 (191)
- February 2010 (182)
- January 2010 (168)
- December 2009 (129)
- November 2009 (116)
- October 2009 (131)
- September 2009 (149)
- August 2009 (162)
- July 2009 (166)
- June 2009 (189)
- May 2009 (112)
- April 2009 (164)
- March 2009 (185)
- February 2009 (151)
- January 2009 (173)
- December 2008 (200)
- November 2008 (155)
- October 2008 (252)
- September 2008 (267)
- August 2008 (193)
- July 2008 (208)
- June 2008 (161)
- May 2008 (208)
- April 2008 (253)
- March 2008 (201)
- February 2008 (246)
- January 2008 (185)
- December 2007 (200)
- November 2007 (208)
- October 2007 (241)
- September 2007 (227)
- August 2007 (269)
- July 2007 (201)
- June 2007 (205)
- May 2007 (157)
- April 2007 (217)
- March 2007 (250)
- February 2007 (183)
- January 2007 (181)
- December 2006 (163)
- November 2006 (180)
- October 2006 (170)
- September 2006 (215)
- August 2006 (210)
- July 2006 (202)
- June 2006 (257)
- May 2006 (280)
- April 2006 (271)
- March 2006 (347)
- February 2006 (284)
- January 2006 (300)
- December 2005 (267)
- November 2005 (238)
- October 2005 (364)
- September 2005 (349)
- August 2005 (377)
- July 2005 (382)
- June 2005 (403)
- May 2005 (371)
- April 2005 (420)
- March 2005 (367)
- February 2005 (368)
- January 2005 (346)
- December 2004 (311)
- November 2004 (260)
- October 2004 (308)
- September 2004 (228)
- August 2004 (319)
- July 2004 (395)
- June 2004 (338)
- May 2004 (288)
- April 2004 (364)
- March 2004 (348)
- February 2004 (438)
- January 2004 (266)
- December 2003 (222)
- November 2003 (226)
- October 2003 (281)
- September 2003 (317)
- August 2003 (315)
- July 2003 (278)
- June 2003 (282)
- May 2003 (265)
- April 2003 (271)
- March 2003 (249)
- February 2003 (283)
- January 2003 (210)
- December 2002 (186)
- November 2002 (184)
- October 2002 (222)
- September 2002 (210)
- August 2002 (207)
- July 2002 (184)
- June 2002 (166)
- May 2002 (160)
- April 2002 (195)
- March 2002 (183)
- February 2002 (195)
- January 2002 (203)
- December 2001 (203)
- November 2001 (238)
- October 2001 (183)
- September 2001 (153)
- August 2001 (204)
- July 2001 (243)
- June 2001 (176)
- May 2001 (92)
- April 2001 (116)
- March 2001 (153)
- February 2001 (142)
- January 2001 (131)
- December 2000 (110)
- November 2000 (124)
- October 2000 (128)
- September 2000 (132)
- August 2000 (138)
- July 2000 (166)
- June 2000 (135)
- May 2000 (120)
- April 2000 (121)
- March 2000 (181)
- February 2000 (163)
- January 2000 (54)
- November 1999 (37)
where are the usual suspects?
Shouldn’t all the free speech advocates be denouncing this proposal for trampling on the rights of minors to view whatever they want?
Re:where are the usual suspects?
Oh, we don’t have to. We can always count on some troglodyte to crawl out from some rock and do it for us.
I find it rather amusing piece of double think, though, that the EU is control of what children see and where they surf as the foundation of some kind of bill of rights. They should just stick to run of the mill “We Must Protect The Children” mantra.
Re:where are the usual suspects?
I knew that I could count on you. Congratulations for being utterly predictable!
We agree on one thing, at least
I find it rather amusing piece of double think …
I agree, it is doublethink (hence the title of my journal entry on the subject from last night).
The article also makes clear that there are plenty of secular authoritarians out there, who think they know better than we do what our children should see. In fact, judging from the EU-wide scale of this program, it appears that the danger from secular authoritarians there dwarfs that from religious authoritarians here.
Re:We agree on one thing, at least
. . . it appears that the danger from secular authoritarians there dwarfs that from religious authoritarians here.
Alas, it would be a mistake to think so. Authoritarianism is much of a muchness. Right-wing, left-wing, secular, relgious; the end result is the same in every event. I have no doubt that if Afghanistan hadn’t been bombed even further back into the stone age when it was the Taliban would have triggered a religious war. The resulting holocaust would have been analogous to the holocausts of Hitler and Stalin, and those were political. We could look to the Witch Hunts of Europe from late 15th through the early 18th centuries for a precedent on that. Or the religious based rioting and lynch mobs in Khandahar(?).
Yes, I saw the stress you put on the word “secular”. I have not missed the fact that not all repression is religious based. The concerns over S215 of the Patriot Act, for instance. And I have opinions about left-wing censorship that are as strong and as convoluted as my opinions about Ms. Tweet. But I’ll let them lie, for now. 🙂
Re:We agree on one thing, at least
Alas, it would be a mistake to think so.
I think you misunderstand my point. My point is that the secular filtering (or censorship, if you prefer) advocates in Europe have made a good deal more progress toward a comprehensive program of Internet access for children than the religious filtering advocates here in the U.S. have. From the story, e.g.:
The EC wants to establish hotlines for the public to report illegal Net content.
…
The programme will cover mobile and broadband content, online games, peer-to-peer file transfer, and all forms of real-time communications such as chat rooms and instant messages.
Re:We agree on one thing, at least
And I have opinions about left-wing censorship that are as strong and as convoluted as my opinions about Ms. Tweet.
I have no doubt that they are both strong and convoluted. However, you seem to direct your invective chiefly at religious people (witness your homepage), as if being religious (or at least conservatively religious) makes one automatically both authoritarian and stoopid.
Re:We agree on one thing, at least
People who respect the civil liberties and human dignity of others are not so newsworthy. The majority of the people we hear about in the news are those who are authoritarian and stoopid. And you are ignoring the part on my index page where I welcome those who think for themselves and invite their dissenting opinions as long as they disagree with me intelligently. For comparison: you qualify on that score, Tomeboy does not. You are willing to engage in mutual dialogue and the free exchange of ideas.
tripping over his own tautology
>>…where I welcome those who think for themselves and invite their dissenting opinions as long as they disagree with me intelligently. For comparison: you qualify on that score, Tomeboy does not. You are willing to engage in mutual dialogue and the free exchange of ideas
Not to fret Fang. No threat by moi to pick on you on the Angelfire home turf. Just the thought of fire-breathing cherubim is enough for me.
Speaking for intellectually diminutive. You are right to assume that many of us lack the subtle sophistication of word parsing to discern your snobby brand of censorship, “Dummies not Welcome�.
Sort of a cyber Jim Crow?
It’s obvious, so I’ve been told by the smart people, that you reserve the right to self-exemption to your home rule of “idiots need not apply”. Unless , ad hominem reâ€?buttâ€?als are now indicative of intelligent, mutual dialogue.
Best “Butthead�
More from ChuckB
ChuckB submitted this as a separate story, but I think it’s more appropriately placed here in the comments section.
ChuckB writes “When I submitted the story on the EU’s Safer Internet Plus initiative, I forgot to ask the obvious questions: do any LISNews readers know any European librarians? If so, what do they think about the filtering initiative? Do their professional organizations have policy statements on the matter? How about intellectual freedom guidelines like the ALA’s Library Bill of Rights?”