Drop DOPA!
DOPA is the worst of the worst and it's up to librarians, really all workers in the public sector to save democracy - yeah, I said it - save democracy by opposing this legislation and telling our senators to oppose it.
What the Deletion of Online Predators Act (DOPA) would do is cancel federal funding to organizations that do not filter social networking sites. So librarians and teachers and couselors are not professionals? So parents and leaders and children themselves do not have the right to make informed decisions? This legislation operates on the principle that our lives are ruled by fear and that the poor and underprivileged (those that rely on publicly available Internet time, by the way) aren't smart enough to know how to keep themselves safe online. And to librarians and library workers out there: there's a job we have to do, namely teaching information literacy. It's not always acknowledged and it often leads to more difficult and thornier questions, but the world is better for it.
What the Deletion of Online Predators Act (DOPA) would do is cancel federal funding to organizations that do not filter social networking sites. So librarians and teachers and couselors are not professionals? So parents and leaders and children themselves do not have the right to make informed decisions? This legislation operates on the principle that our lives are ruled by fear and that the poor and underprivileged (those that rely on publicly available Internet time, by the way) aren't smart enough to know how to keep themselves safe online. And to librarians and library workers out there: there's a job we have to do, namely teaching information literacy. It's not always acknowledged and it often leads to more difficult and thornier questions, but the world is better for it.
posted by Nick at 6:19 PM
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