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  • From: Paul Jones <pjones AT metalab.unc.edu>
  • To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: clash of the titans
  • Date: Sun, 12 Aug 2001 21:25:11 -0400 (EDT)


I defy Kip to show any evidence to support his entirely rhetorical and
vapid claim on 99%. Anyone who has tested filters knows otherwise and
there are several studies that he might have read that would have set him
straight.


On Sun, 12 Aug 2001, Thomas Beckett wrote:

+ Check out the Q section in Sunday's News & Observer! Fierce debate
+over censorware in public and school libraries!
+
+http://www.newsobserver.com/sunday/news/q/Story/809802p-806525c.html
+
+ In this corner, local multimillionaire tech-biz mogul Kip Frey. Mr.
+Frey claims that First Amendment advocates are overreacting whiners and
+that filtering software allows access to 99% of the information on the
+net!
+
+http://www.newsobserver.com/sunday/news/q/Story/809802p-806526c.html
+
+ And in this corner, the feisty poet, educator and raconteur, our own
+Paul Jones, director of ibiblio.org! Mr. Jones argues that filtering
+software filters too broadly and too indiscriminately, and ultimately
+hampers free expression and free access to information. (Check out his
+photo in the print edition if you can. He almost looks distinguished.)
+
+http://www.newsobserver.com/sunday/news/q/Story/809802p-806527c.html
+
+ Join the fray if you care too, either here on [Internetworkers] or on
+the N&O's discussion forum. Paul has been holding his own there all day
+Sunday.
+
+http://forums.triangle.com/WebX?50 AT 139.vYWTabZFcSk^3@.ee7cf2c
+
+Have at.
+
+TaB
+
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