Sites and Soundbytes: ALA Cancels Meeting with Filtering Companies

Mercury News -- Library group cancels meeting on filtering pornography

"...the ALA's immediate past president, 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."

I completely agree that the ALA meeting with filtering companies sent a very mixed message to libraries struggling with this issue.

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