Dr. John Ellison sent in thisLA Times Story that covers a state of CA Court of Appeal\’s decision. The judges ruled that libraries cannot be held liable when youngsters peruse pornographic material on Internet sites. A woman had brought the case after her 12-year-old son downloaded sexually explicit photographs at the library in Livermore. They say the judges based thier decision on a federal law that protects Internet providers from liability for failing to edit or restrict offensive material.
\”A public library is in a \’damned if you do, damned if you don\’t\’ situation in deciding whether to restrict access to the Internet from its computers to prevent harm to minors,\” Justice Daniel Hanlon wrote\”
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