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[- It's a bird, it's a plane... it's SuperLibrarian!
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By amy, Section Filter It Yourself!
Posted on Tue Jun 24th, 2003 at 05:20:14 PM EURODISCORDIA TIME
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Filtered through an Anti-Filter Filter:
As you might have heard, here in the US, in order to protect our freedom, the government is cracking down on freedom. After all, there ought to be limits to freedom.
Anyway, it's interesting that as each piece of shiny new freedom-limiting legislation comes our way, quite often we hear about a major resistance underway from those infamous anti-establishment political activists - librarians. For example, today's news about the Supreme Court decision upholding library filters. And then...
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There's this story about a range of library tactics to resist the USA PATRIOT Act. Seems I just keep coming across these - and unlike other groups trying to deal with governmental electronic surveilance demands (ISP's for example) - the librarians seem to be pretty well organized. Which is maybe to be expected - not only are they not in competition with one another, nor trying to make a profit, but, after all, they'd better be organized - they're librarians.
Could librarians be the new heroes of resistance? Could their mild-mannered exterior, like that of Clark Kent, be just the thing the resistance movement needs to be taken seriously in Middle America?
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