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Why not have it be opt-in. If your kid can't be trusted, put a big red dot on their library card so the librarians know to turn on filters for those kids. I don't use porn filters at home, and I trust my kids not to surf porn at the library. Scanning the logs and reprimanding kids that violate library policy should be enough.

Filters have a LOT of problems. MANY filters are very anti-gun and would filter out GOA, NRA, and FR.

Why not have it be opt-in. If your kid can't be trusted, put a big red dot on their library card so the librarians know to turn on filters for those kids.

Systems are setup so adults and children with the proper permission can get unfiltered access. So the whole censorship arguement is mute.

Eno_: You said, "I don't use porn filters at home, and I trust my kids not to surf porn at the library. Scanning the logs and reprimanding kids that violate library policy should be enough"

Scary. Even perfectly innocent children can accidently get a porn site and may become permanently scarred by what they see, or some spyware software pops up pornographic windows even where your kids are blameless. A few weeks ago a man was arrested or convicted of having thousands of misspelled sites like dinsey.com just to lure kids to porn. Please see our Links page on http://www.plan2succeed.org/ to learn more about this. We ask questions and provide links to answers you may find useful. We are not asking you to agree with us, just to take a look to see if you can find something that helps you vis-a-vis your own children. And thank you for posting to this thread. Please continue to do so.