APOLOGIES FOR CROSS-POSTING
What's the point of trying to censor?
Date: Tuesday 3 June 2003 (N.B. as an exception, this meeting is held on
the first, not second, Tuesday of the month)
Time: 6.30 pm
Venue: The City Pride, 28 Farringdon Lane, London EC1 (note the change
from our usual venue)
Speaker: Charles Oppenheim, Professor of Information Science at
Loughborough University
Why DO people want to censor Internet content? Is there any point in
trying to restrict children's access? Can filters ever work effectively?
Charles's wide-ranging talk will answer these and other questions about
the control of Internet content. He will also discuss whether there is
any
point in trying to limit access to material and look at more sinister
possibilities that might underlie attempts to monitor and restrict
access.
In this talk, Charles will consider some of the reasons why people want
to censor access to the Internet, and will highlight the problems
associated with some of the software filters around. He will then raise
the question whether any attempt should be made at all to censor
Internet content.
Charles Oppenheim has been Professor of Information Science at
Loughborough University since 1998. Prior to that, he held a variety of
posts in academia and the electronic publishing industry, working for
International Thomson, Pergamon and Reuters at various times. He has
been involved in legal and ethical issues in information work since the
mid 1970s. He is author of "The Legal and Regulatory Environment for
Electronic Information" (Infonortics, 2001) and the regular "Lislex"
column in the Journal of Information Science. He was the co-author of
the "Guide to the Practical Implications of the Data Protection Act
1998" (BSI, 1999).
LHCB evening meetings are free and open to all with a professional
interest in the topic. They are a follow-up to meetings held by IIS
Southern Branch. Refreshments will be available afterwards. As space is
limited, please let us know if you are coming. Contact Phillip Powell at
[log in to unmask] or on 020 7416 5345.
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