DUmmies Outraged (Again) Over Library Moonbat Filter

[GOBUCKS]

B Calm  (1000+ posts)        Sat Aug-06-11 01:21 PM
Original message
My local library bans the Mike Malloy website.
Not sure what free parental Internet blocker they're using, but get this it allows Mike Huckabee, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, etc.

Really pisses me off when I can't get my Malloy downloads after driving all the way into town. One librarian if she's on duty will use her password and remove the blocker for me, the others will not.

Anybody got ideas on how I can access the Malloy website without bothering the librarian?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1678439
What! They block Mike Malloy? Wait, who is that? Oh, yeah, the moonbat who looks like Marshall Applewhite.

Angry Dragon  (1000+ posts)        Sat Aug-06-11 01:33 PM
Response to Original message
3. Ask to talk to their supervisor and keep going until you get to
an answer that makes sense
and if they will not budge file a written complaint
about the right wing sites and have others sign it also

Write the complaint. No one will care. See, the right wing sites are for rethugs. Every rethug home has wi-fi, and at least
three devices that use it. No rethug has ever used a computer in a library. Sorry, DUmmy.
 

B Calm  (1000+ posts)        Sat Aug-06-11 01:38 PM
Response to Reply #3
4. Small library with only one librarian on duty. There is a library board
and I do know most are republicans.

BoWanZi (384 posts)      Sat Aug-06-11 01:38 PM
Response to Original message
5. WTF a library bans the Mike Malloy website?
 Actually it doesn't matter to me what site they block, it REALLY bothers me that they block anything at all. I used to have a good job in a college and one of the things that was treasured above all was academic freedoms especially when it related to internet use. You could pretty much go anywhere you wanted and there was no monitoring or lockdowns. Obviously, don't be going to porn sites but for honest research, you could go anywhere.

I guess I just put libraries in the same boat as colleges/universities and expect them to provide internet freedoms warts and all including the porn and the gross and the distasteful.

To the OP, that is just unbelievable and I would be pissed beyond words.

Yeah, "WTF". The fact that democrats sites, like the DUmp, are littered with the vilest obscenities may
be a clue to why decent people may object to them (and to democrats).

 

B Calm  (1000+ posts)        Sat Aug-06-11 01:42 PM
Response to Reply #5
7. My guess is that the free Internet blocker they're using knows Malloy
is an atheist and the blocker is made by some old church ladies. 

I think that's probably it. After bible study on Tuesday mornings, they sit around writing software.

Posteritatis (1000+ posts)      Sat Aug-06-11 01:44 PM
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9. Most internet filters are overwhelmingly conservative in nature
Considering the whole idea for most of them isn't "obscenity" filtering as much as "ideas I don't want people to see" filtering, they tend to be produced by people who gravitate towards a particular kind of thought control mindset. Liberal or civil rights related sites, religious information that isn't Judeo-Christian enough, etc., tends to wind up blocked in most of them.

DUmmy Posteritatis is outraged that it's so hard to click up some kiddie porn these days.

[DumbAss Tanker]

I would hazard a guess that Malloy's site (Which I don't care to actually visit, since he is an idiot) is as chock full of profanity as any other moonbat site, which I don't believe is true for the Hannity, Huckabee, or Limbaugh sites.  That fact alone would explain the blockitude.

[Tucker]

B Calm should make a date with Bobo when she finally shows up. She has knowledge of the library's free internet  system.

They can sit in the Buick, parked in an alley, pretending they're at a drive in movie, watching a 3D version of "Willard".

[diesel driver]

Posteritatis (1000+ posts)      Sat Aug-06-11 01:44 PM
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9. Most internet filters are overwhelmingly conservative in nature
Considering the whole idea for most of them isn't "obscenity" filtering as much as "ideas I don't want people to see" filtering, they tend to be produced by people who gravitate towards a particular kind of thought control mindset. Liberal or civil rights related sites, religious information that isn't Judeo-Christian enough, etc., tends to wind up blocked in most of them.

That would explain the DUmmies' obsession with banning Fox News.   

[Skul]

BoWanZi (384 posts)      Sat Aug-06-11 01:38 PM
Response to Original message
5. WTF a library bans the Mike Malloy website?
 Actually it doesn't matter to me what site they block, it REALLY bothers me that they block anything at all. I used to have a good job in a college and one of the things that was treasured above all was academic freedoms especially when it related to internet use. You could pretty much go anywhere you wanted and there was no monitoring or lockdowns. Obviously, don't be going to porn sites but for honest research, you could go anywhere.

I guess I just put libraries in the same boat as colleges/universities and expect them to provide internet freedoms warts and all including the porn and the gross and the distasteful.

To the OP, that is just unbelievable and I would be pissed beyond words.

Say WHAT??
Is there a treatment for those?

[Airwolf]

Sorry but it's not unusual for libraries to have filters and if what we have learned in the past about little Mikey is anything to go on then it's probably good that little johnny and little sally don't hear what Malloy has to say if he can't refrain from using some worlds to get his message out.