David Goldstein wrote:
> I'm very curious to know whose opinion it is that this is "a serious
> case of considerable public importance."
>
> I guess that the EFA may consider it thus, but for the general
> public??? To consider it serious. And why would the public consider
> it important to get "hold of page titles and URLs" of this stuff.
> Surely it's a list that can only be abused.
In every other media -- books, films, magazines, computer games,
videos -- classification decisions are publically available
(through the OFLC database). And there's a good reason for that --
if censorship is carried out secretly, no one has any way to know
whether it is being abused or not. (Even people who don't object
to censorship on principle often have concerns about its extent and
possible ramifications, in my opinion.)
The possibility of secret and unaccountable censorship is clearly
"of public importance".
Danny.
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