Do You Read Blocked Blogs?

This morning, Bud The Teacher, posted a request for designs for a 21st Century version of the “I Read Banned Books” buttons that we are all so familiar with. In response to this request, I played around with an idea:

Buttons, apparel, mugs, and more are here. I’m getting at least a t-shirt, some buttons, and stickers for NECC.

And Adrian Bruce also responded with some nifty buttons that you can add to your website or blog:

If you want to use the design I created on your blog, you can grab this button from my flickr.com account

So what month should we designate for “Blocked Blogs” month?

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1. Charlie A. Roy April 12, 2008 10:36 pm

   I do read blocked blogs. Thanks for the artwork.

2. Stephanie April 12, 2008 10:38 pm

   Yay! You are welcome!

3. Bud Hunt April 12, 2008 11:12 pm

   These are great! My order’s placed. I bought a few to share, too. Thanks!

4. » Rising Up for Digital Citizenship | Kate Says April 15, 2008 8:34 am

   […] has different areas of expertise, we need EVERYONE! An example of another project being created is Stephanie Sandifer’s Blocked Blogs Week that she references in Vicki’s post and on the […]

5. Vicki Davis April 15, 2008 6:49 pm

   I would love to post this project under the “Digital Access” section of the wiki for the Advocates for Digital Citizenship, Safety, and Success. We need many people to join in with this. I’ll share this as well through the diigo group. Will you keep us informed.

   Would you allow me to add you to the group blog at http://ad4dcss.blogspot.com to keep people informed of the big happenings with this project.

6. Vicki Davis April 15, 2008 6:50 pm

   Oh, and would you create a standard tag for this so that I may aggregate everything to do with this on the main wiki on a page for this project.

7. Stephanie April 15, 2008 7:58 pm

   Vicki — Yes and done… standard tag is: blocked_blogs

8. tom April 16, 2008 1:21 am

   Great job! Please remember that there are different levels of blocks and different reasons. If you look at Global Voices(http://tinyurl.com/27vva5)you might be surprised at the official bans on WordPress, Blogger, YouTube around the world. Just last week Google Docs was banned here in Turkey for violating a law against defamation of the state.

   Maybe this will help people realize the importance of holding tightly onto the right to expression, and the irrationality of blanket bans. Our school bans any site with the letters b-l-o-g in the URL, and the government bans any site with “wordpress” in the URL. YouTube is regularly banned because of offensive material posted by people in other countries! I hope that if people see the logical extension of censorship they will more vigorously cherish and fight for the right to speak.

9. Stephanie April 16, 2008 8:55 am

   Tom,

   Thanks for that insightful comment. I made some edits to the “purpose” statement on the wiki to incorporate the concept of “more informed filtering” that serves to block harmful sites, but allows access to useful Read-Write Web tools that our students should be TAUGHT how to use appropriately, effectively, safely, and efficiently. You are correct — irrational blanket bans don’t protect kids and could be more harmful in the long run.

   Stephanie

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