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Dear Librarian in Denver: Why are you filtering the internet?

By Flavia Fascendini for GenderIT.org

ROSARIO, Argentina, 01 August 2011

Controlling what users can and can’t see on computers using filtering software is standard in US libraries. APC questions the Denver Public Library on their filtering policy and practices in a fictional exchange that tackles very real questions of freedom of information.

Full article at http://www.genderit.org/feminist-talk/erotics-responses-denver-library-fictional-exchange-real-foundations

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