More on Web censorship in libraries

[Nick Arnett]

The San Jose Mercury News had a roundtable discussion on this topic
("Families, Libraries and the Internet) in the Sunday Perspectives section.
There's a discussion of the issues here:

http://www.sjmercury.com/opinion/internet/

One of the more interesting bits in the discussion printed in the paper was
that an assistant county counsel (and parent), Ann Ravel, seemed to be
saying that there is absolutely no question that it would be
unconstitutional for U.S. public libraries to censor based on content.

Ravel: "The role of the schools is to protect children; they're in loco
parentis.  Public libraries are the open marketplace of ideas."

Nick

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