In 1997, ALA said, “We Can Gloat”

Jim Faith writes “From Library Journal, 6/28/97

“ALA REPORT: Triumphalism at Panel on Filtering

“Riding the momentum from the Supreme Court’s overwhelming denial of the Communications Decency Act, an air of triumphalism–perhaps misplaced–dominated a Saturday afternoon panel on “To Filter or Not to Filter” sponsored by the Intellectual Freedom Round Table. “We can gloat,” declared program chair Fred Stielow of the Mid-Hudson Library System, Poughkeepsie, NY. Indeed, the three library panelists each denounced the use of filters”

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