LOL! But that’s okay, the ALA (American Library Association) will tell you he was really using the institution just as Carnegie had always wanted it to be used, and if you don’t like it, why you’re just a fuddy-duddy, unable to understand the demands of modern librarianship. One of which is apparently to keep a towel on hand at all times. Yuck.
You know how we cured that problem here in Freeport? A trio of good friends of mine (including Freeper believer1) got time before the library board (which had been quite hostile to the idea of filtering), brought in a computer and hooked it up to the Internet. Then they took a couple of common girl's names and said, "let's say little [name deleted] and [name deleted] decide to check if there's a website for their name--you know, like www.[namedeleted].com." Then they put in that address, and sure enough, it was a porn site. At one point during the demonstration, there were so many pop-ups on the screen, each with pornographic content, that they had to unplug the thing to get it to stop.
A reporter from the local daily was sitting there watching it all. The board voted for filtering. :-)
By the way, when I say "we" I mean in the community sense...I wasn't in on this op but I'm sure glad they did it!