heretic's linkblog of fun had something to say about this news article:
a Philadelphia court has thrown out the idea of filtering porn sites from public library terminals, in the name of free speech. Tough call - the principle is sound, but at the end of the day I just don't feel it's appropriate to have people surfing porn sites in public libraries.
Now I don't like it that the Klan has websites, or that people read them, but that doesn't mean we can just keep people from looking at them. On top of that, libraries are funded with public dollars, making it double-bad to monkey with speech on their premises. I might be prejudiced, since K. and I heard a radio interview with a woman who was suing a library system because her son had seen so much porn using a library computer that he felt like no one should stop him from seeing whatever he wanted. That's probably not the legal argument they were using, but that's how she put it. She went on to add that this case was only about child protection, and if you were against it, you were "basically anti-child." Left me with a bit of a bad feeling.
In other news, I missed the quilt guild meeting due to silly time confusion, resulting in being gone for 2 hours so I could read magazines and wait for buses. Feh.
