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.

“Without exception Internet Filters are used to eliminate that which is deemed to be “undesirable” by an individual or group that has power over other individuals or groups”…Bob Turner

I wrote this in 1997 and it was on our website. It is as true now as it ever was.

Jeff Koftinoff, author of one of the first internet filters commented on slashdot: http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=227713&cid=18443381

Bennet sends out this story pasted below in increments below about a school board not allowing Al Gores “An Inconvenient Truth” to be shown because of a single complaint from the Creationist thrust. This has made me think of the twelve years I have known Bennet, not personally but through intermittent correspondence and a limited exchange. Bennet probably doesn’t know how much he has contributed to our project so I am writing this to tell him now.

unbelievable how this ball has been fumbled ... bt

Justice Department refusal to investigate and prosecute Web site customers prompts action. A congressional subcommittee investigating online child pornography has taken bold action -- sending state prosecutors and attorneys general in 46 states the names and credit-card numbers of 1,500 alleged patrons of a child-pornography Web site.