Jeff, okay, sue them for something different, something having nothing to do with personal responsibility. Are you suggesting victims of public library crimes that result from the use of unfiltered Internet access that remains unfiltered despite CIPA and US v. ALA and at the direction of the ALA are somehow personally responsible for being attacked? How? Please provide examples, suggestions.
If we ever find such a case we'll deal with it then.
The case you cited was the result of a scumbag attacking a girl. He was a scumbag before ever logging onto the net. The girls parents should have kept a better eye on her though.
The net and the world in general is run by and largely populated with adults. Children need to be protected by their parents weather in a library, a store or a church. You never know who the scumbag is.
BTW filtering does'nt work worth a !#$%. I hope you're not depending on it.
Are you suggesting that preteens are going into libraries, accessing MySpace.com or whatever, and meeting sexual predators, despite libraries being highly regulated and monitored?
If they are, where are the cases? Why haven't I read about it? Surely it would be in the MSM, right?
Porn at the library is wrong.
Suing someone for one's own lack of responsibility is wrong.
Don't sue, educate. Teach the parents how to take responsibility for their kids. Teach the parents to teach their kids responsiblity.
That's precisely the problem -- you want to have nothing to do with personal responsibiility, and recoil from the concept like Dracula in front of a garlic patch.