Florida Family shocked by web images at library

You’ll never guess what poped up in Florida. There was a guy sitting there and he had some pornographic stuff on the computer. Toler also says he noticed he had his hand on his pants. Linda Allen, Pasco Library Director says, “there is a fine line between censorship and appropriate behavior.” And while the library agrees the images that offended the family weren’t appropriate, especially for a ten-year-old to see, Allen says, “it wasn’t pornographic…our library has something that will offend everyone; you just have to go look for it.”

January 18, 2008 by Censorship Internet Librarians Libraries

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2 Responses

  1. leo says:
    January 18, 2008 at 11:03 pm

    World of Perversions
    I dunno. Of all the things affecting public libraries (or libraries in general), to keep on coming back to porn seems a bit obsessant to me.

    “The library internet rules prohibit computer users from intruding on the rights of others.”

    And that’s what it should be! No one on this site or any other would tolerate some government hack looking behind your back trying to decide whether the page you were looking at was acceptable or not.

  2. Fang-Face says:
    January 19, 2008 at 2:54 am

    Hogwash

    “you’ve got to watch them 24/7 even in a public library, a place mostly for children.”

    A public place that is open to only one segment of the public, but not all of the public?

    How’s that again?

    Save the easily offended: ban everything.

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