Bristol Library's Ban Access to Bristol Indymedia

Tom Woodnut | 10.03.2008 19:45 | Other Press

don't know why but they have complain bristolians

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Maybe it's something to do with the institutional racism?

10.03.2008 21:21

Probably because of its openly divisive and racist agenda; (a) in welcoming a Hezbollah thug and liar to our city and (b) in that every other thread is a rant about Israel.

If you saw a talkboard which invited the reps of armed South African guerilla / terrorist organisations to town and had threads constantly talking about "black imperialism" you would probably not want the impressionable kiddies to access it. So don't ban everyone who complains about your racist agenda and then whine about the library not wanting visitors, many of whom are children, to see it.

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11.03.2008 10:07

A library I was in once wouldn't let me look at the Anarchist Book Fair site saying 'violent content'.

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Inconsistent and illogical

12.03.2008 13:11

LIbraries don't publicise that they put blocks on the internet on their computer systems. I once tried to access Banksy's website (the graffitti artist) in the library and found it blocked, but I was able to access every other web article ever written about him, including one with the F word in the title! I did a little experimenting and found I could get into the BNP website, but not Blood and Honour (I was only experimenting!), I could get into most of the anti-fascist websites, some of which advocate violence, and I got into a past issue of SCHNEWS which, in a review, quoted a passage from a book which explained the best way to make a petrol bomb!
I decided not to draw the staff's attention to this stupid inconsistency though, in case they put even stricter censorship on their computer system.

Annie Citizen
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