Kids Accessing Forbidden sites

[Library Internet Resources Co-ordinator]

At 7:15 AM -0700 4/9/97, Steve Hooley! wrote:

>        1. Is 'Heaven's Gate' porno? The kids seemed to react similarly.
>Maybe due to parental reaction?

No real sexual content so it can't really be called porno.

>        2. Is it dangerous? Everyone's heard about it by now. The message is
>out, and it seems pretty dumb.

As dangerous as ideas can sometimes be, even ideas that are dumb can be
dangerous. But do we filter ideas on such how dumb they are?

>        Also, one of our students has defiantly mirrored the site on his
>homepage because he heard the FBI was closing it down. Gee, and I thought
>_I_ was strange.

I have the whole thing on my hard drive and am strongly considering adding
the pages to our site as they relate to our New Religious Movements (NRM)
collection.

After looking at the 'Heaven's Gate' pages I turned to the Church of
SubGenius pages for comfort. And some of those might be called pornographic.

Our NRM web links pages start at:
    http://www.gtu.edu/library/LibraryNRMLinks.html



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