Small Victory In The Filter Wars

latcarf writes: "The article here reports what happened in the American heartland when a councilman raised a fuss over filtering at the local public library. In this case, the forces of reason prevailed because the library had policies and procedures for casual monitoring of internet use and because the librarian, who had to defend the rejection of filters, was well informed. While the article doesn't say it, the librarian's information about the problems with filters came, in no small part, from SlashDot discussions. This is just another example of Slashdot's important contribution to the social discourse." Heh. I don't know what the poster is basing his statement on, but it sure would be nice to think the information in places like Slashdot, Peacefire and censorware.org was useful in this particular case.