Anti-filtering Web Site Founder Fesses Up

Staff -- Library Journal, 2/2/1998

Thanks to a thread on the ALA Office for Intellectual Freedom listserv, the founder of a recently established web site, Stop Filtering and Censorware in Libraries, has unmasked himself. After Chuck Munson, a computer specialist at Science magazine, recommended the site in one post, "Net Mom" Jean Armour Polly criticized both the site's content and its anonymity. Munson responded that he was responsible for the site, with the help of some others, and expects to update it: "In fact, I would like to see a grassroots campaign develop to get filters out of libraries, so this site is a service to those activists." Added Munson, who runs the Anarchist Librarians Web, "I have no interest in promoting my name, an organization, or whatever."