Boston Globe: Web filters at libraries are overdue

Faith Gemme writes “While the ACLU and the usual band of First Amendment zealots are demanding let-it-all-hang-out Internet access in libraries, some resistance has arisen from an unexpected constituency: librarians. In Minneapolis last week, 12 librarians sued their employer in federal court, charging that the library’s three-year-old Internet sites displayed ”virtually every imaginable kind of human sexual conduct,” contributing to an ”intimidating, hostile and offensive workplace.”

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“First Amendment zealots,” now that’s the funniest thing I’ve read this April Fools day.