In this opinion piece by Tom Jackson of the Tampa Tribune, the tap-on-the-shoulder method is discussed to keep patrons away from porn. I don\’t know, I\’m not sure I would want to touch someone who doing that at my library.
\”Until the thinking filter can be developed, the best remedy is one Bonjour already has in place. Call it the Family Room Solution.
Pasco library PCs occupy conspicuous locations within the various branches. Patrons who surf outside their age group get a tap on the shoulder by a library staffer; abusers lose Internet privileges.
It\’s effective. It\’s local. And, best of all, it\’s cheap.\”
In this opinion piece by Tom Jackson of the Tampa Tribune, the tap-on-the-shoulder method is discussed to keep patrons away from porn. I don\’t know, I\’m not sure I would want to touch someone who doing that at my library.
\”Until the thinking filter can be developed, the best remedy is one Bonjour already has in place. Call it the Family Room Solution.
Pasco library PCs occupy conspicuous locations within the various branches. Patrons who surf outside their age group get a tap on the shoulder by a library staffer; abusers lose Internet privileges.
It\’s effective. It\’s local. And, best of all, it\’s cheap.\”
\”Let\’s just say from the outset that taxpayer-supported institutions have an interest in keeping intellectual gunk out of children\’s heads. We\’re talking obscene material here. We-know-it- when-we-see-it pornography.\”
\”If tax dollars are paying for it, and kids have access to it (we can argue about taxpayer-supported smut for grown-ups some other time), it ought to be pristine as a virgin forest.\”
\”The American Civil Liberties Union notwithstanding, it is a bankrupt society that willingly bombards minors with complex concepts that they lack the sophistication to judge.\”
\”ALONG COMES THE INTERNET, and suddenly graphic display of every combination of sexual partnering (to name a concept) is a mere mouse click away. Small wonder that, increasingly, the family PC is relocated from the middle schooler\’s bedroom to the family room, where it can be reliably chaperoned.\”
\”More recently, however, attention has turned to schools and libraries, where tax-supported computers and the Internet are frequently under the command of adolescents not always sharply watched by adults. Congress has attempted to deal with Internet pollution through legislation (Child Online Protection Act) passed in 1998, and with strings.\”
\”The ACLU\’s immediate challenge to COPA is still knocking around in the courts; meanwhile, schools and libraries around the country that have taken advantage of Federal dollars to go online will have to add software designed to restrict access to adults-only sites, or pay Washington back. For Pasco County schools, that amounts to about $1.5 million, and for its library system, more than $500,000. Yikes.\”
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