Electronic Brown Wrapper: Hustler via ILL

[Burt, David]

On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, Burt, David wrote:
>> How often do patrons access hardcore porn from a public library
>> terminal?  hundreds, maybe thousands of times a day.

Laura Quilter wrote:
>as the widely varying comments from a variety of public librarians have
>indicated, anecdotal evidence -- and even pure hypothesizing as you're
>doing -- is not very helpful in predicting the situation for public
>libraries as a whole, nor any one specific public library.

Considering the thousands of public access Internet terminals available
in libraries, and the large number complaints about pornography being
accessed from these terminals, the supposition that porn sites are
accessed from within public libraries "hundreds of times a day" is not
at all unreasonable, and as I said, thousands of times is within the
realm of possibility, so I don't see how such an empirically supported
claim "is not helpful".

But really, the point of the comment was to discredit a weak analogy, a
point you totally ignore.  That's what's know as taking something out of
context, Laura.


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