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For the last six months Adena Wilson\’s 15-year-old son has been going to the Westerville Public Library. She thought he was improving his mind. Then she found the porn pictures he had dowloaded while using the library computers. According to his mother, \”[he] had never seen pictures like that until he was here.\”
Westerville Public Library\’s Don Barlow explained that the filter used by the library is site specific, in order not to wholesale block sites. Barlow also pointed out that parents have the responsibility of policing their children, not the library. The mother contends that at the library, the library is responsible (she claims responsibility when he is home).
There is also a survey on the same page about who is responsible for keeping children away from pornography on the Internet – parents, librarians, filters, or combination of the three. At this point the run-away favorite is parents, then combination of the three. Librarians – 0%! \”
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