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Such problems might be mere annoyances if schoolteachers and librarians exercised actual control over what would be blocked. However, the only trade secret of a filter company is its list of banned sites; if that were public, any competitor could introduce an equally good product. As a result, the lists are fiercely guarded, meaning that there is no simple way for the purchasers of filter software to verify a manufacturer's claims--or for those whose sites are wrongly labeled as pornography or hate speech to find out and complain. Even if the programs offer some nominal degree of choice...
...politically, none of this matters. Filter software has become the cause du jour because it lays to rest nagging questions of content and responsibility--it is just a cover for our actual confusion, a whited sepulcher concealing the ugly fact that society hasn't yet dealt with the Internet's implications. In the old days, a flawed culture could be healed by dragging a bunch of network executives up to Capitol Hill and giving them a stern talking-to; through the democratized medium of the Internet, content can be distributed worldwide after it has been reviewed by only one moderator...
...lack of student input in administrative decisions been more apparent than in the presidential search itself. Although the search committee has recently invited groups of students to meet with them, these meetings have been informal and provide no guarantee that student input will be used in the actual selection process. The next president should be more vocal about allowing students and faculty to participate in the choice of his successor...
What's so great about an hour of political gobblety-gook (beside Rob Lowe's incredible good looks)? First and foremost, "West Wing" maintains an incredibly high level of substantive content. In the 40-some-odd minutes of actual airtime, one finds more quality political discussion than could be gleaned from four and a half uninterrupted hours of presidential contender sparring; and unlike Gush and Bore, "West Wing" characters tend not to rehash the same old generalizations week after week after week...
Later on, I entertained the notion that Bush was suggesting that some subjects, such as the length of Gore's tax plan, are best debated in the language of numbers, whereas actual statistics about how much money will be spent on specific programs are simply too crass to be repeated in the exalted format of a presidential debate. This argument didn't make terribly much sense either, since a tax plan is actually composed of a collection of numbers, and so it seems slightly disingenuous to discuss only the vaguest of guiding principles while masking the actual outcome...