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South Carolina's On-Again, Off-Again Filtering

Posted by timothy on from the what-your-money-buys dept.

fuzzbomb writes: "South Carolina libraries were forced to put filters on their computers or lose half of their funding. Now they're having to remove filters from some of their computers because the law says that every library system must offer unfiltered access on up to 10% or at least one of their computers. "

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  1. Censorware MUST ban privacy, anonymity sites by Seth+Finkelstein · · Score: 4, Informative
    Let's see if it's safe for me to go back to Slashdot ...

    Readers may be interested in my anticensorware reports on the above topic, particularly

    Censorware MUST ban privacy, anonymity, even language-translation sites, because these represent a possible escape from the control of censorware.

    See also, by Peacefire, http://peacefire.org/babelfish/ - BabelFish blocked by censorware

    I'm going to be releasing much more anticensorware work in the near future, but it's not clear if it'll be accepted for consideration on Slashdot. This is in part due to the still-active issue of What Happened To The Censorware Project (censorware.org), and the acrimony between myself and Slashdot editor Michael Sims. I'm trying to see if there is a way to work around that editorial abuse, but frankly I'm a programmer, not a diplomat.

    -- Seth Finkelstein