On the whole I am more anti-filter I think. I used to work for an isp that provided filtered content, and we took a lot of calls about the filter hampering research. Breast cancer was a big problem, as was any site containing the word adult. I got interested in Kerridwen, Welsh goddess of death and dreams, and found that a lot of sites about her were blocked. (She had a cauldron and this was a Christian company which blocked on references to witchcraft and Satanism as well as sex and violence.)
Even if you can ask for the filter to be removed... my experience using public library computers indicates that at least half the librarians won't know how. It also requires making a big deal out of seeing a site, and most people will pass. I probably would. I know I eventually got tired of asking my employer to unblock sites, and got an isp account elsewhere in addition to my work account. And not because I wanted to see pornography. It's not my thing. There are already rules in place at any library I have ever been to saying that you cannot use the computers for pornography or hate material. I find this restriction reasonable as you are after all in a public place and I for one don't want to have to look up and see the guy on the next computer looking at pornography. But the staff is walking around seating people and doing whatever, and it isn't often an issue. I used public computers for oh, six months after the flood, and in that time I think I saw one teenage boy get told to get out of the site he was in. This suggests to me that the money is probably better spent on books or another computer. Let's ask a slightly different question -- should you be able to use a public computer for games? Dana John Stanley writes: > If there are people in the world that go to the library just to look at > http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/banned-books.html , then pornography is > the least of our worries. > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Dan Phillips [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 10:08 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Porn in the Library > > > To be brutally honest, if there are people in the world that go to the > library just to look at porn, filters are the least of our worries. > > -----Original Message----- > From: John Stanley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 10:05 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Porn in the Library > > > i'm not in favor of filters in the library for computers adults will > use. if there are pc's that kids can access, then the filters need to be > there, but should be removed for adult usage. there is more at stake > here than some sex images. the bottom line is you have one group of > people deciding what is appropriate for "you" to be able to see in a > "public" library. A library that your taxes support. This is not that > different from those religious assclowns removing books they deem > offensive from shelves. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Harkins,Patrick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2003 9:59 AM > To: CF-Community > Subject: RE: Porn in the Library > > > I'm in favor of the porn filters in the library as well. If people are > going to that then they are wasting the bandwidth. -Patrick > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Dana Tierney [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Subject: Re: Porn in the Library > > > > > >nobody commented on this. Too many other topics, or does > >nobody else find > >this slightly troubling? > > > >Dana > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=5 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. http://www.cfhosting.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
