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[David L. King]

> On Thu, 8 Feb 1996, Leo Eugene Spesard wrote:
> The provisions of the legislation provide some protection to service and
> content providers, but only if you take an active role in censoring
> information.  Do you think your library has the time and resources to
> supervise everyone using a browser?  Are you going to have to turn of the 
> option to download files because you can't prevent the downloading of materials 
> that are now baned?  This bill puts significant burdens on libraries that will 
> either cause you to eliminate services or divert resources toward censorship of 
> them.  Will your taxpayers like that?

I don't agree. How will this affect libraries? Think about it - does a 
gas station provide nude pictures, or does Playboy provide nude pictures? 
The burden will be on all the adult-oriented companies that have Internet 
access, and their web providers. Which, of course, could also put some 
burden on universities - but that would be at more of an administrative 
level at that point. 

Other than not being able to provide "100%" access, I don't see how this 
will affect libraries. 


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			David King
			Electronic Services Librarian
			University of Southern Mississippi
			dlking at ocean.st.usm.edu
			http://ocean.st.usm.edu/~dlking/
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