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POLL : Porn In Public Libraries ?
A divided Supreme Court ruled Monday that Congress can force the nation's public libraries to equip computers with anti-pornography filters.
Should this be considered a First Amendment Issue ?
YES
NO
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06-23-2003 09:04 PM
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maybe not an amendment issue, but definitely they need filters, these are PUBLIC libraries, if someone wants to view porn let them do it in the privacy of there own home or where ever else, not in PUBLIC, where kids and who ever walks by can see it, there's got to be some limits.
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Heck the kids can go on the computers and view all day if they want to at the libraries.
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OK, we all know how liberal I am, but there has to be some limits. Porn should be a private thing, IMO.
That being said, technically the answer to the question is yes.
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I don't think it should be considered a First Amendment issue, but I stillt hink it should be kept out of public libraries. I look at it like this, they limit what kinds of bill boards can be posted, they are supposed to make sure that porn mags are stored where children can't get them, how is this any different? Porn should not be accessible to children, period. On home computers, school computers or library computers, no where should they see it.
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I can understand the libraries concern because the porn filters can filter out lots of non porn things and for the adults researching a paper they won't be able to read everything they need.
Maybe they could have porn filters on the "children" computers and no filters on computers that adults can access.
My hubby works for two female obstetricians and they complain about all the porn they get into but with their line of work they would. They can't figure out a solution for it.
But with libraries that are open to the public something needs to be done.
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Public Libraries are finded by tax-payer dollars. Here they have filters that restrict access to porn and purchasing sites due to insercure downloads and the danger of computer viruss to the system
Could they have a "coded" filter which would allow the library to selectivly ban sites based on content and context ?
Free access to information is a priledge that we take for granted but that does not mean that EVERYTHING should be accessable to EVERYONE.
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Originally posted by janelle
I can understand the libraries concern because the porn filters can filter out lots of non porn things and for the adults researching a paper they won't be able to read everything they need.
Maybe they could have porn filters on the "children" computers and no filters on computers that adults can access.
I agree with you. The problem with a lot of the filtering software is that it can prevent access to plenty of legitimate research topics, like breast cancer, or for that matter, news stories on this kind of topic! From what I've heard, a lot of libraries have done this, put filters on the childrens' room computers and not on the adult ones, which you have to have parental permission to use if you're under 18 anyway.
My mom's a librarian and she says that the best deterrent they found to keep people from looking at porn was to put the computers where anyone walking behind them could see what the person was looking at. She and the other reference librarians keep an eye out for people looking at inappropriate sites, but they haven't really had a problem with it because most people are too embarrassed to look for porn when the librarian might catch them!
My issue with this is that I don't like the idea of Congress forcing public libraries to do anything!
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from Arcadia to the stone fields of Inisheer
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She and the other reference librarians keep an eye out for people looking at inappropriate sites, but they haven't really had a problem with it because most people are too embarrassed to look for porn when the librarian might catch them!
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Well there's your deterrent right there. A librarian may be able to look over your shoulder---priceless. LOL
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porn should be looked at in the home... why bring it to such a public place?? eww...
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