Filtering / Censorship
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Blocking access to sites online
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Latest Activity: Oct. 17, 2009
Is Filtering Censorship?
Some think so...
The definition of censorship - Censorship is the suppression of speech or deletion of communicative material which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient to the government or media organizations as determined by a censor.
For some reason inconvenient sticks out to me.
ALA - this is not a new argument.
What a novel idea - we can teach kids how to navigate the Internet
The definition of censorship - Censorship is the suppression of speech or deletion of communicative material which may be considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or inconvenient to the government or media organizations as determined by a censor.
For some reason inconvenient sticks out to me.
ALA - this is not a new argument.
What a novel idea - we can teach kids how to navigate the Internet
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Install filters in their brains? 2 Replies
Interesting article here about filtering. Presents some ideas from both sides and definitely leans toward more access. Here's a soundbite: The best filters we can provide to kids are the ones we buil…
Started by Peter Gaines. Last reply by Peter Gaines Oct. 17, 2009.
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Comment by Donna Russo on October 15, 2009 at 8:35pm - Hey, why am I blocked from the content of this page?
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