Filtering discussion.

[Shirl Kennedy]

Excuse me...

I think I feel a swoon coming on.

SDK


-----Original Message-----
From: Chuck Bearden <cbearden at hpl.lib.tx.us>
To: Multiple recipients of list <web4lib at library.berkeley.edu>
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 1998 3:45 PM
Subject: Re: Filtering discussion.


>On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Paul H. Gray wrote:
>
>> I --do-- care and it --is-- my business what the limited resources
provided
>> by my tax dollars are used for and what type of atmosphere I have to live
>> and work in.  As a gentleman I am terribly embarrased and angered when
lady
>> librarians and patrons are forced to sit at a station assisting a patron
or
>> trying to study with men and boys on both sides of her oggling material
>> that I wouldn't even describe in mixed company.
>
>Paul raises two important issues here that have not been much treated
>in the filtering debates I've observed: the right of those who fund
>public libraries to be concerned about the environment their tax
>dollars help realize; and the possibility that librarians are being
>subjected to sexual harassment when they must work with those who are
>displaying sexually explicit material on the screen.
>
>I'm not suggesting that a decisive argument in favor of Internet
>filtering on all machines arises out of these issues.  In fact, I'm
>a bit hesitant about it because it looks to me like a state intrusion
>into parental responsibility.  But any position on filtering that
>ignores these concerns seems to me incomplete.
>
>And while I'm sure this makes me an anachronism, I'm glad to see
>someone else framing their reactions to pornography in terms of
>gentlemanliness.
>
>Chuck Bearden
>Network Services Librarian
>Houston Public Library
>Houston, TX  77002
>713/247-2264 (voice)
>713/247-1182 (fax)
>cbearden at hpl.lib.tx.us