From: Jeff Shultz 

Bill Lucy wrote:

> Out of darkness, Jeff Shultz says...
>
>> > Realistically, it will not change what libraries do in providing
>> > information. Anyone may ask that filters be "turned off".
>>
>> And if someone really wants to view that material, they can also get
>> their own connection - and even pay for it themselves! Nothing in the
>> library filters is preventing the material from being available to the
>> internet. And I fail to see why the taxpayers should be forced to
>> support someones porn habit.
>
> You're assuming that someone is looking up "porn". The problem with a
> filter is that it may not allow a patron to find what they are looking
> for, even if it wouldn't be considered pornography.
>
> Escalating all non-filtered "hits" to equate with pornography is
> contemptuous. That isn't how it works in real life.

Fine - if they are searching for some non-porn subject they can ask to have
the filters removed.

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Jeff Shultz

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