[WEB4LIB] Saying no to porn sites from our library's home page

[Angela Evette Weaver]

A censor is someone who supervises morals and conduct.  By saying that
surfing porn sites is forbidden in the library, what exactly do you think
you have done except supervise morals and conduct?  I hate to be the one
to tell you this, but you're in the censorship business.  
 
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Angela Weaver
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On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Hanan Cohen wrote:

> We have a computer class in our library where we let people use them for
> accessing the internet (including mail and irc).
> 
> We don't want people to surf to porn sites but we also don't want to get
> into the censoring business. 
> So, I have put a link from our home page to "sex sites". Naturally, this
> is the first link people click. It links to a page saying : 
> "viewing nude pictures sould be done privately and 
> some people are offended by exposure to such material 
> so 
> surfing to porn sites from the library is forbidden.
> whoever is cought surfing porn sites will be asked to leave the library.
> 
> What do you think about our strategy ?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> -- 
> Hanan Cohen
> 
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