Intersex Web Sites Censored at Public Libraries?

[Emi]

Libraries already cut smut: Many local branches have existing internet filters on computers
The Orange County Register
http://www2.ocregister.com/ocrweb/ocr/article.do?id=45097
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Sandie Kloszewski, 36, of Santa Ana is worried about losing access to legitimate Web sites.
The Web-page designer uses her local library to research so-called "intersexed" genders. She was born a hermaphrodite.

Kloszewski said she uses the Santa Ana library's adult computers ‚œ only youth computers have filters ‚œ to read about hermaphrodites. But she recently was denied access to similar Web sites when she logged on at the Orange Public Library. The law applies to all computers in public libraries that are paid for, in part, by the federal government.

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[Betsy]

We've had a problem with this in the past...both with the site, and with our news letters because we mentioned clitoris (in fact, I think it was the announcement about the last Creighton-Minto story.

On the email one, I got an auto reply saying I was sending offensive language. It was obviously a filter, and I wrote back a quick note pretty much explaining what we do and asked them to put us on their allow list. No problems with those addresses since.

On the library issue, I was rooting for SCOPUS finding the censorship act unconstitutional. Since that didn't happen, I have been submitting our site for "human scrutiny" on the most popular filters to get an "allow" through the filters. Most of the makers understand (while I still don't) that some sites end up filtered that shouldn't be.

Betsy