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Maps-L Moderator for Hallie Pritchett <[log in to unmask]>
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-------- Original Message --------
Subject:        RE: California Assemblyman wants to censor Satellite Imagery
Date:   Thu, 5 Mar 2009 11:02:02 -0500
From:   Hallie Pritchett <[log in to unmask]>
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Doesn't the California Assembly have better things to do with their time
these days than debate the dubious merits of blurring online satellite
imagery?

Hallie

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Maps-L Moderator for Paige
Andrew
Sent: Thursday, March 05, 2009 10:45 AM
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Subject: Re: California Assemblyman wants to censor Satellite Imagery

-------- Original Message --------
Subject:        Re: California Assemblyman wants to censor Satellite Imagery
Date:   Thu, 05 Mar 2009 10:37:14 -0500
From:   Paige Andrew <[log in to unmask]>
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I'd say the horse left the barn several years ago, so what's the point...

Paige

At 10:24 AM 3/5/2009, you wrote:
>-------- Original Message --------
>Subject:        California Assemblyman wants to censor Satellite Imagery
>Date:   Thu, 5 Mar 2009 08:46:16 -0600 (CST)
>From:   Linda R Zellmer <[log in to unmask]>
>To:     Map&AirPhotoDiscussionList <[log in to unmask]>
>
>
>
>Hello,
>
>This was in the Map Room when I checked this
>morning. Note that this would be at the state
>level, not the Federal. Linda Zellmer
>
>Republican California Assemblyman Joel Anderson
>has introduced a bill to censor online satellite
>imagery of public buildings. â??His bill would
>restrict the images such Web sites could post
>online. Clear, detailed images of schools,
>hospitals, churches and all government buildings
>? what he calls soft terrorism targets ? would
>not be allowed. ? His bill would make it illegal
>in California to post close-up images of such
>buildings. Instead, the images would have to be
>blurred.� Note to terrorists: Everything
>blurred is worth bombing. And, since
>transportation infrastructure is also clearly a
>soft terrorist target, all imagery of roads should be blurred too.
>oo.
>
>--
>Linda Zellmer
>Government Information & Data Services Librarian
>415 Malpass Library
>Macomb, IL 61455
>[log in to unmask]
>Phone: 309-298-2723
>Fax: 309-298-2791

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