Filtering at Ada Community Library, Boise Idaho

[Diane Lewis]

To respond to Ronnie Morgan's request for clarification, my thought
was that the son should have heeded his father's 
instruction not to access the Internet without his permission or 
presence.  One wonders how a library could keep track of which 
young people have permission to access the Net without a parental 
presence and which did not.  Few  libraries are staffed 
sufficiently for such monitoring. 

The "chilling" part for me was that a special interest 
group can so easily put  a community's free access 
rights at risk.

BTW, I loved Thomas Perrin's Swiftian piece on hiring censors.

Diane M. Lewis
USGS Library

At 05:51 AM 9/2/97 -0700, Diane Lewis wrote:
>Thanks to Dan Lester for forwarding that chilling story to this list. 
>I was particularly struck by the attitude of that parent who 
>insisted that the Library not allow his son access to the Net without 
>his parents' presence.  One would think a simple instruction to the 
>son would have been sufficient.   

If most of you advocate "parents choice", why is this so "chilling"?  Was
the father not making the choice in this case? 

One would think a simple instruction to the LIBRARY would have been
sufficient.  

Ronnie