Bob Turner and I have always promoted Transparency of Filter Lists.

Transparency of a filter list means that it must be clear what specific sites are blocked or filtered.

Transparency means that filter lists can be verified by any third party to be correct and be verified to not contain sites that a blocked due to politically motivated reasons.

At the LIS Serv there is a synopsis of an article on the Kanguard filter: Kanguard filter

Many years ago in 1990, Bob Turner and Jeff Koftinoff, were working on alternative MIDI input devices at Simon Fraser University specifically for high level quadriplegics.

"Tomeboy" writes:

€œFiltering is a Collection Development Issue

For whatever reason, many of my colleagues refuse to accept the concept of a selection policy for Internet resources. I am told this is censorship. However many of these same folks use a selection policy for collection development. What is the difference?”

Turner writes:

''The ALA's litigious animosity towards filtering has slowed down the constructive thinking regarding filters in libraries. CIPA has forced the issue. Filtering is necessary if you want to pick up the money.

Frequently Un-asked questions with Bob Turner's Answers (1996)

Part1 - Hype and Positioning

Q...The recent bru-hah-ha regarding censorship & the Internet...how has this affected your business?

Interesting Things

These are mostly e-mail things that have come across my desk.. they are forwarded and can be considered to be floating out there...they may be rumours of they may be truthfull or they may be out there..references are indicated when possible. They may be real or mythological.. the lines between mythology and reality in human perception are very blurry anyways. I have tried to verify them where possible. All italicized editorial comment is mine.....BT

....Bob Turner