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to: Jeff Shultz
from: Bill Lucy
date: 2003-06-25 00:28:58
subject: Re: Libraries, the Internet, and Free Speech

From: Bill Lucy 

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.

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