children accessing porn; adults turning off filterware (was Re: Selection)

[Mark Wilden]

> From: earl young <eayoung at cais.com>
> 
> Someone is paying for Internet access, but the financial cost is not the
> point.  The First Amendment issues - particularly my right to "listen" -
> is also not on the table.

You really see no connection between filtering and the First Amendment?

> The question that was posed is the fairly narrow one of "what
> is the case for child access to pornography in libraries?"

Which I addressed. 

> Your last sentence again raises the issue of parental responsibility.  I
> see an implication (and I apologize if none was intended) that parents
> supporting filtering are trying to set standards for the children of
> others.

Well, of course they are. Suppose there were a parent who wanted her child to see pornography. If
the pro-filterists had their way, her tax money would end up being spent to make sure that child
couldn't do so in a library.

>  Is that not also true for the people who want to block
> filtering?

"Block filtering"--interesting concept. :) If a parent doesn't want his child to see pornography,
he can accompany his child to the library. And good luck to him! If a child wants to see porn, she
will.