Conservatives try to curtail hotel porn

AP via Yahoo! News ^ | August 22, 2006 | DAVID CRARY

[King of Florida]

NEW YORK - Pornographic movies now seem nearly as pervasive in America's hotel rooms as tiny shampoo bottles, and the lodging industry shows little concern as conservative activists rev up a protest campaign aimed at triggering a federal crackdown.

A coalition of 13 conservative groups — including the Family Research Council and Concerned Women for America — took out full-page ads in some editions of USA Today earlier this month urging the Justice Department and FBI to investigate whether some of the pay-per-view movies widely available in hotels violate federal and state obscenity laws.

The coalition also is trying to draw attention to CleanHotels.com, a directory of hotels and motels nationwide that pledge to exclude adult offerings from their in-room entertainment service.

[Burkean]

The ALA's policy does read that material in the library shall not be selectively denied to patrons based on age, gender, race, etc. But as far as the internet goes, relating to public libraries that get federal funding, they MUST comply with the Child Internet Protection Act.

And on a practical level, many libraries do monitor minor's use of the internet. Many academic libraries, which as a rule do not censor the internet because their services are by definition meant for adults, prohibit minors from using the internet altogether.