{"id":8527,"date":"2014-04-19T00:01:09","date_gmt":"2014-04-19T04:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/?p=8527"},"modified":"2014-04-18T09:51:42","modified_gmt":"2014-04-18T13:51:42","slug":"celebrate-404-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/2014\/04\/celebrate-404-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrate 404 Day!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On April 4, 2014, the Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) teamed up to celebrate 404 Day- the day that honors <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/404\">this little message <\/a>that pops up when there\u2019s an error and you can\u2019t access a webpage.\u00a0The OIF and EFF took this opportunity talk about the Children\u2019s Internet Protection Act (CIPA).<\/p>\n<p>Enacted in 2000, CIPA was written to address concerns about the exposure of children to pornography and other explicit content, through the implementation of browser filters.\u00a0 Additionally, public and school libraries that adhere to CIPA and apply to filters to at least the internet devices in their children\u2019s department, are eligible for government funding.\u00a0 More information on CIPA can be found at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fcc.gov\/guides\/childrens-internet-protection-act\">FCC website<\/a> and the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ala.org\/offices\/oif\/ifissues\/issuesrelatedlinks\/cppacopacipa\">OIF website<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n<p>Through a Google+ Hangout streamed on YouTube, Intellectual Freedom buffs Deborah Caldwell-Stone, Sarah Houghton, and Chris Petersen talked about what CIPA really means for libraries, how to cope with CIPA, and how to get your board to reconsider CIPA.<\/p>\n<p>Since the Hangout is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yb1sYK8aGGI\">available for you to watch here<\/a>, I won\u2019t rehash the whole thing, but I will share some important points:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Many people think they understand CIPA fully, but they actually don\u2019t.\u00a0 If you don\u2019t understand ask questions!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Filters are mainly English-centric.\u00a0 If you have access to a translator page or spell some of the search terms wrong, you will most likely be able to bypass the filter.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Only lighter skin tones are recognized as skin tones.\u00a0 Therefore, a filter might block any variation of this.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>When asked the best way to start a library board to reconsider their filters and compliance with CIPA, Sarah recommended moving the conversation from a conversation about morality to a cost benefit analysis.\u00a0 For example, how well are the filters doing their job?\u00a0 Do things get blocked by the filter, that shouldn\u2019t be? How much does it cost to have these filters in both time and money?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Also, Deborah shared that the OIF will be releasing a new white paper at the end of the month on the topic of CIPA and its role in your library.<\/p>\n<p>Remember, the ALSC IF Committee is always here for you if you have questions about intellectual freedom issues or if you are facing a challenge (it doesn\u2019t have to make the news!).\u00a0 We\u2019re here to help, so feel free to reach out <a href=\"http:\/\/connect.ala.org\/node\/65725\">via ALA Connect<\/a> or <a href=\"mailto:hacerro@gmail.com\">email<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 4, 2014, the Office for Intellectual Freedom (OIF) and the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) teamed up to celebrate 404 Day- the day that honors this little message that pops up when there\u2019s an error and you can\u2019t access a webpage.\u00a0The OIF and EFF took this opportunity talk about the Children\u2019s Internet Protection Act (CIPA). Enacted in 2000, CIPA was written to address concerns about the exposure of children to pornography and other explicit content, through the implementation of browser filters.\u00a0 Additionally, public and school libraries that adhere to CIPA and apply to filters to at least the internet devices in their children\u2019s department, are eligible for government funding.\u00a0 More information on CIPA can be found at the FCC website and the OIF website as well. Through a Google+ Hangout streamed on YouTube, Intellectual Freedom buffs Deborah Caldwell-Stone, Sarah Houghton, and Chris Petersen talked about what CIPA really means&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[272],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogger-intellectual-freedom-committee"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alsc.ala.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}