Porn in Public Libraries?

I can't see both sides. This is not just porn they censor. When I was on the road there were certain things I couldn't do because I wasn't "allowed" to and they had nothing to do with porn or adult content.

In many places the books 1984 and Lord of the Flies have been banned from schools - we used to study them as classics and as important political commentary. Now we're not allowed to think?

All this censorship crap going around is BS. I had a mother and don't need someone else acting to "protect" me from sensitive ideas. While I do approve of filtering some computers for kids, I believe that adults should still claim their freedoms of autonomy and speech and it is just abhorrent to me that anyone would try to tell me what I am allowed and not allowed to see. Right now it's porn and chat, and all social sites -- later the porn crucifiers will find their own religious material or other very vital interests on that list and will cry big tears over it because all of the sudden it is what THEY want that is being restricted. That's the beauty of rights - people either are left to theirs or sooner or later your own go out the window.........whether YOU like what others are doing or not.......in the USA the way we were meant to be, what others wanted to look at wasn't any of your F---ing business anyway.

I think we need to put a stop to censorship of material to ANYONE who is not a minor.

Gary - computers for the adults can be positioned so that passers-by aren't seeing what you are doing. Yes we all know what porn looks like. I HATE porn. But it's none of my business if YOU want to look at it and as far as someone sitting and "spanking their monkey" there are public decency laws, you can't just do that anywhere and not risk arrest. It's much less likely to happen in a library than it is in a public park - should we ban those, too? Better ban mall parking lots as well. You better start monitoring the whole world because there isn't anywhere that your kid is safe from that stuff. Having adult restricted computers in the library isn't going to risk your kid any more than they are any other place on this globe. You are just making excuses why YOUR will should dominate.

I also don't like the insinuation that wanting to read or post on a social site means I am foaming over porn. I was not able to update my twitter account at all while on the road because of a library "filter". I've never looked at or posted porn on that once but need to be monitored...just in case? I suppose you are also in favor of their little policies to keep records for DHS of EVERY book you check out whether it is porn or not.

Our rights were spelled out in the Constitution and Bill of Rights just to save us from such subjective thinking. You don't like porn so it shouldn't be allowed - but, as I pointed out, once you take that right, you have set precedence for ANY right to be taken from you.

I, myself, stopped checking out books when the gov started acquiring lists of books people checked out. It's violation of my privacy and really just plain not anybody else's business what I choose to read and I feel the same about my choice of internet activities. Just because the guy next door is a pervert doesn't give someone the right to stick their nose into my life.

Oh - and another thing - you have to sign to use the computer. If something happened to a kid in the community, going back over websites certain people visited might actually give clues to who the community pervert might have been. Ya'd think people so worried about whose gonna touch their kids would be liking that advantage.

Steve - you're going to see more books banned, too - not only that but the definition of fascism is being changed in Webster's so people won't be brilliant enough to see through the smoke screen. And ya know what is really SICK --- You will always have people stupid enough to cheer, stomp their feet, and wave flags as their freedoms fall because they aren't able to make an objective deduction of what the act will lead to in the future. Neitchzie would love it.

To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Well, gee Thom - where I grew up there was a private adult reading room that kids weren't allowed to even open the door to. It took me all this time to figure out what was goin' on in there. Man I missed a real education somehow.

Hell no there shouldnt be porn allowed in public libraries, why is this even a question?

I think that the porn should be kept in the adult areas, strip clubs, adult book stores..etc. places where children arent hanging out. Any library around here on any given day has loads of school kids.

So lets say we go with the 'locked adult area'...as people tend to do, lets take this to the extreme...what do you think that a locked adult area with porn in it is likely to turn into...?

If there is porn at the library - then its no longer the library

Banning things from the public library is not censorship. If tax payers don't want to fund porn in the libararies, that should be our choice. I don't want to pay for others' vices.

Just go to the porn shops, dirty book stores and peep shows, or get your own computer/connection.

I'm against our government saying porn should be illegal, which they are not in this case. I'm against it being in public libraries. BIG DIFFERENCE. I also have no problems with libraries banning "hate" books or plans on how to build nukes. Find that stuff out on your own, not with my tax money.

Nobody bothered to ban islamist militants preaching rascism in the 90's

Many things don't get banned, many things don't get promoted.

Porn is not educational, so it doesnt belong in a library anymore than booze belongs in a food parcel.

Should churches & charities provide free booze & hookers ?

I wish the salivation army would at least provide hookers - hold outs.

WOW National Geographic .. this takes me back to the 50's when all they had to jack off to was "National Geographic" & "Womans Weekly".

Now these vile corrupting publications are to be found everywhere.

Why should the public pay for the porn activities of a few people at the libraries?

Folks should get their porn elsewhere.

TL

it's truth that the involvement of the porn stuffs in the public places or libraries should be avoided.