Hopkins restores access to health site

Baltimore Sun by Stephanie Desmon | Apr. 5, 2008 (News Report)

Johns Hopkins officials restored full access yesterday to a reproductive health Web site funded by the government, after learning that searches containing the word "abortion" were being intentionally restricted and that thousands of studies were being hidden from easy view. The change came after librarians and women's health advocates flooded the blogosphere - and e-mail boxes at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health - with complaints of ... Full Story »

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Subjects: U.S., Politics, Business, Sci/Tech, Media, Health
Topics: Bush Administration, Internet, New Media, Abortion
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Posted by: Posted by Beth Wellington - Apr 5, 2008 - 11:25 AM PDT
Reviewed by: Beth Wellington (review), Fabrice Florin (review), Gerard Barberi (review), Patricia Blochowiak (review)
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Edited by: Fabrice Florin - Apr 5, 2008 - 7:24 PM PDT

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Patricia Blochowiak
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 by Patricia Blochowiak - Oct. 1, 2008

Uncovering censorship is an essential function of good journalism.

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Beth Wellington
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 by Beth Wellington - Oct. 1, 2008

This reporter cited a number of sources in covering the story of how Johns Hopkins restored its database after initially responding to a requirement by its funder to remove two citations about abortion advocacy by making "all abortion words" "stop words"--those that a search engine will ignore, usually words such as "the" and "and." The reporter was unable to cite USAID, the funding source, because "officials were at a retreat yesterday and could not be reached for comment." The reporter states that "The change came after librarians and women's health advocates flooded the blogosphere - and e-mail boxes at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health - with complaints of censorship."

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Fabrice Florin
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 by Fabrice Florin - Oct. 1, 2008
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Gerard Barberi
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 by Gerard Barberi - Oct. 1, 2008
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