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Since water purity and safety are important for your overall health, you may have investigated various water filters. One popular form of water filtration to remove contaminants is the Berkey water filtering system, but a Berkey lawsuit claims that those products don't work as advertised. What does the lawsuit say about this company? Can consumers seeking purified water trust a Big Berkey water filtration system? Find out how the lawsuit started and what's happening in 2023. Is Berkey Filter being sued? According to BerkeyFilters.com, the manufacturer of Berkey filters, New Millennium Concepts (NMCL), is the company named in the Berkey...

Awesome video about the algorhythmic filtering of the internet which biases everything we get to see/know. Check this out: Click here.

San Jose council votes down porn filters at public library computers A year and a half of debate over filtering pornography out of San Jose public library computers came to a head late Tuesday when the City Council rejected spending money on the technology. After a lively debate that lasted hours, the council voted 7-3 to approve a proposal by the vice mayor and two councilmen that would remind computer users of existing policies to be courteous to others. Mayor Chuck Reed and council members Pete Constant, who led the push for the filters, and Pierluigi Oliverio were opposed, favoring...

San Jose City Council to reconsider porn filters at libraries San Jose officials are preparing for a showdown later this month over online pornography in city libraries. City officials last considered whether to electronically filter library Internet use in 1997. At the time, they overwhelmingly concluded the technology was too primitive to snag smut without also snaring information about health topics like breast cancer. The council will revisit that decision in what is expected to be a heavily attended evening meeting April 21. Councilman Pete Constant since October 2007 has called for reconsidering that move. He has cited improvements in...

I have noticed that a lot of times, certain articles are censored out by internet filters. keywords such as fascism, liberalnazis, stormfront and nambla are censored even though they are articles about nambla or describing fascism. To me it sounds like a good way to block the public from viewing the similarities of Liberal Democrat's and Hitler's Nazis. I think it might be a good idea to remove certain keywords so that there is no confusion between websites advocating fascism and those like this one that refute and expose it. the mods might want to do that and anyone here...

Our children: This board didn't take the steps necessary to protect our kids from hard-core video pornography at our public libraries. In an unbelievably disgraceful move, the incumbent voted to allow deviants to view this perversion in our libraries with our kids nearby. It's illegal for explicit sexual material to be on display in public. I pledge to protect our kids and enforce that law in Pima County libraries.

President Abraham Lincoln was buttbuttinated by an armed buttailant after a life devoted to the reform of the US consbreastution. Not an extract from an essay by a particularly poor history student, but a selection of the nonsense phrases created by automatic software designed to remove offensive words from articles posted on the internet. The phenomena, known as “The Clbuttic Mistake” after a mangling of the word “classic” that is believed to be the first identified instance of the problem, can be found on tens of thousands of websites. The error is caused by poorly programmed anti-obscenity filters – similar...

Sacramento Officials Refuse to Ban Online Porn in Libraries City: Sacramento, CA Officials who oversee the Sacramento public library system rejected pleas from parents and students late last week to prohibit the viewing of online pornography in libraries. At a public hearing late Thursday, parents and students pled with the Sacramento Public Library Authority Board (SPLA Board) to protect kids from the dangers of allowing pedophiles and other sex addicts to view online porn in libraries. One student related a personal experience of trying to conduct research while sitting next to someone viewing online porn. A number of library systems in...

<p>In very poor countries, the family that has to walk miles to fetch drinking water from a well or a stream may be the lucky one. In many villages, the water source is a filthy pond trod by animals and people, or a mud puddle out next to the yam field.</p>

(TIME SENSITIVE; FOR IMMEDIATE CIRCULATION) March 13, 2006 (Hyperlinks in Text) Oklahoma State Representative Sally Kern has a bill, House Bill 2158, which will go to the floor for a vote very soon, perhaps within the week. According to the Library Stories blog, the Friday (March 10) editorial in the Daily Oklahoman is from none other than Oklahoma City’s mayor condemning the fine State Representative for her efforts to restrict funding from public libraries unless they re-shelve obscene materials and books regarding homosexuality to a section where only adults can sign for same. She is only doing her job. The...

Rush is starting to lose it again. What is he losing? his "high moral high ground". Remember when the rushbo started calling anyone who wanted klintoon out of office "kooks". Rush stated that in late 1998: " we might as well let Klintoon finish out his term ( the 2nd one ), for what can he do in his last two years". Plenty, most of us thought. Why is rush givng up? shortly after this, Drudge broke the Monica story and things changed with rush. Most of us disagreed, and feared what klintoon could do in his last two years....

Source: AsiaTimes HONG KONG - As China further tightens state controls over Internet use, overseas rights groups are criticizing US software giant Microsoft for agreeing to censor politically sensitive terms such as "democracy" and "human rights" from personal online diaries - known as blogs - written by Chinese citizens. The Paris-based press freedom group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said it had confirmed that certain key words were now being censored from text posted by Chinese users to blogs hosted by Microsoft's MSN Spaces service. "When a Chinese blogger attempts to post a message containing terms such as 'democracy', 'Dalai Lama',...

Giant Balls of 'Snot' Explain Ocean MysteryBy Bjorn Carey LiveScience Staff posted: 10 June 2005 06:22 am ET Scientists have discovered giant sinking mucus "houses" that double the amount of food on the sea floor. The mucus houses, or "sinkers," are produced by tadpole-like animals not much bigger than your index finger. As sinkers drop to the sea floor, small sea critters and other food particles get stuck to the mucus and end up on the bottom of the ocean. For years scientists have observed loads of life at the bottom of the ocean. But they weren’t able to find...

To any Freepers out there in the school communities: I have been told the Child Interent Protection Act has provisions in it that require schools, at some point, to install Internet filters that block a certain threshold of the color pink. Is this true? If so, does anyone know where I can find that specific information. Thank you.

Town Refuses to Ask Citizens If Library Porn Should Be Filtered Out; Plan2Succeed.org Seeking Pro Bono Counsel. Something is wrong when a small group of people called a Library Board of Trustees determines that a public library must continue to allow access to pornography despite admittedly being outside the library's mission, the Township Committee claims it is powerless to stop the Board, and the citizens have no say.

I was happy to see the U.S. Supreme Court uphold a law intended to protect children from "objectionable" Internet content. The ruling goes some distance towards making PCs and the Internet welcome in the children's sections of America's libraries. But I don't think locking down libraries will make a dent in the ability of young people to see stuff that responsible adults don't want them to. TO ME, this is like so many other political battles, in which rich parents demand laws that have little relevance to the real world where needy children live. It gives those parents the warm...

WASHINGTON (Talon News) -- The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that public libraries must filter out pornography from their computers, despite claims by some librarians that this hinders free speech. With more than 14 million people, including children, accessing the Internet in public libraries each year, the court was concerned about the amount of time people were giving to web sites with overtly sexual content. This ruling declares that the government can freeze funding to any library that does not comply with the installation of anti-pornography filters. "To the extent that libraries wish to offer unfiltered access, they are free...

<p>So much for the Republican Guard. Now if we could just figure out a way to defeat the junk e-mailers. Obviously, we can't shoot spammers. And Congress has yet to pass a bill to outlaw these vile and annoying messages. It's not even clear that such a law would be enforceable; so much of the filth comes from outside the United States these days.</p>

I was wondering if anyone had any links to websites with information on Gas Mask filters...of all types??? Without going into too much detail, I work on a federal reservation and I have been provided with several masks to hand out to my staff, including the M14 and M40A1 models, complete with standard military filter. I'm hearing from a source that the filter in the M14, a light olive green, unmarked model, has been with the mask since delivered some 12 years ago. I have no idea how long the M40A1 has been around, but the filters also look original....

December 11, 2002 Internet Filters Block Many Useful Sites, Study FindsBy JOHN SCHWARTZ eenagers who look to the Internet for health information as part of their "wired generation" birthright are blocked from many useful sites by antipornography filters that federal law requires in school and library computers, a new study has found. The filtering programs tend to block references to sex and sex-related terms, like "safe sex," "condoms," "abortion," "jock itch," "gay" and "lesbian." Although the software can be adjusted to allow access to most health-related Web sites, many schools and libraries ratchet up the software's barriers to highest...