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Open letter to libraries: boycott DRM!

May 14, 2008 11:29am

I'm a librarian and I know how bad this is firsthand. Librarians are always on the front end of fighting against anything that limits freedom of speech and access to information. We often hear from people trying to limit access or ban books that they had no idea how militant librarians can be about fighting against this.

But, oftentimes, libraries are held under the crappy bureaucracy the local, state and federal government that they are stuck with not having a choice to limit access. Either they limit access or all their funding is gone, and that's what we hear all the time. We actually want more of the public to get upset and fight against this, but fight with us and not against us. We are not installing these things because we want to, we are just backed into a corner and have no choice.

So join us in helping with the fight, but you'll get nowhere yelling at us about it. Yell with us at the government and then we'll see what we can do.

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