New Year - same old stuff

There is an interesting discussion over at the Huffington Post about internet censorship and libraries - feel free to jump into the fray

I didn't realize that by default Google safe-search is turned on until I couldn't find a page that I know existed when I ran a search. If you have never changed the setting just go to the Google page, click on preferences and select Do not filter my search results.

The U.K. Minister of Culture has proposed ratings for websites which should concern us all

The Research Advisory Board of the Internet Safety Technical Task force will be releasing their full report in January but preliminary info shows “…the increased popularity of the Internet in America has not been correlated with an overall increase in reported sexual offenses; overall sexual offenses against children have gone steadily down in the last 18 years”. You can read the literature review on their website.

Happy New Year