Seth Finkelstein writes \” The American Library Association on Friday canceled a meeting with software developers over how to meet new requirements to block pornography at libraries\’ Internet terminals.
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The organization gave no reason for canceling the meeting. Mitch Freedman, had raised objections to it Thursday in an internal e-mail discussion list. The order to cancel came from the group\’s 13-member executive board, which Freedman sits on, later in the day.
\”Simply, having any discussion whatsoever with the filtering companies legitimizes them, thus giving them a legitimacy that ALA has never recognized,\” Freedman wrote to fellow librarians on the ALA Council.
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