ACLU Continues to Back Down From Library Suits

Shirl Kennedy sdk at mindspring.com
Thu Jan 8 12:20:57 EST 1998


>"We're pleased to see the American Civil Liberties Union backing away from
>a lawsuit against the public library in Jacksonville over Internet access.
The
>organization apparently recognizes a loser when it sees one.  The library
>uses software to block access to what the software maker defines as
>pornographic sites on the Internet, so that children can't view the
>offensive material.

>It also prevents adults from reaching the pornographic sites on terminals
>provided by the taxpayers.

>Strangely enough, we haven't heard one word of complaint from the pedophile
>community since the filtering plan took effect."

>http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/010498/Sunedit3.html

Since when does viewing of pornography = pedophilia?

SDK




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