San Francisco LGBTI Center censors computers

To the Bay Area Reporter:


Our San Francisco LGBTI center has installed a censorship program
on its public-access computers.



This robot-censor, euphemistically named "Site Coach",
blocks access to a recent B.A.R. news report
on medical use of cannabis --
because "marijuana" is on its list
of forbidden words and ideas.



I ask B.A.R. to investigate the facts,
and publish an objective news story on this matter.
I ask the Center to abandon censorship.
And I ask all freedom-loving queers and allies to communicate their views
to the Center's staff and board.



Censorship betrays our LGBTI liberation movements.

Queer fascism isn't okay
just because it's queer.



Tortuga Bi LIBERTY,
a member of the Center,
in San Francisco



26 September 2006