Article from American Reporter

Kimberley Heitman (kheitman@it.net.au)
Wed, 28 Oct 1998 21:35:41 +0800 (WST)

Andy Oram has his articles online at:

> http://www.oreilly.com/~andyo/ar/

He's put online an article that has a nice spin on the filter debate.

http://www.oreilly.com/people/staff/andyo/ar/filter_argument.html

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> WHY I DO NOT INSTALL FILTERS ON MY CHILDREN'S COMPUTER
> by Andy Oram
> American Reporter Correspondent
>
> CAMBRIDGE, MASS. -- Knowing my interest in online democracy,
>people often ask me whether I let my children use the Internet without
>some kind of filter. In an era where libraries block information and
>Congress falls over itself to clamp down on sex, people put me under
>suspicion for running an open computer system. Against all these
>forces I offer a simple lesson I learned from my nine-year-old.

Kimberley Heitman,
Chair, EFA

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