Court Ruling Threatens To Pull Federal Money From Libraries That Don't Install Internet Filters

Talon News ^ | 06/24/03 | Jimmy Moore

[Protagoras]

As usual, your freedom hating agenda is exposed as you make huge stretches to attempt to attack libertarians in any thread no matter how far removed from the subject they are.

Seek help with your problem.

[LanPB01]

This ruling isn't saying libraries have to find ways to restrict users from viewing porn. It's just saying if libraries refuse to cooperate with attempts to place filters on their computers to weed out the porn, they won't get any money from the federal government.

[Protagoras]

These librarians are not libertarian, not by a long shot.

I guess you aren't familar with the poster. A libertarian behind every tree ya know.

[Protagoras]

Your comment doesn't have any relationship with my comment, as usual.

[Cultural Jihad]

These librarians are not libertarian, not by a long shot. The speakers at this weeks yearly ALA conference include Ralph Nader, Gloria Steinem, and Naomi Klein.

Correction: Are you claiming there are no absolutist libertarian moral-liberal librarians out there fighting for the 1st Amendment right and freedom of children to have their innocence assaulted?

[Protagoras]

I'm not making any claim about anything libertarian - a term you seem focused on.

Bingo! It's called an obsession.

[LanPB01]

There are no libertarian librarians, from what I've seen. Considering that their jobs depend on government funding, it wouldn't make sense for them to be libertarian. The current crop of librarians (and the governing board of the ALA) are socialists through and through. That's why they love Michael Moore so much.

[Cultural Jihad]

Greens, Libertarians, Socialists, Democrats: they are all moral-liberal allies since they all agree on social issues.

[Protagoras]

You were the one advocating the shutting down of tax-sponsored libraries, which is a libertarian fantasy.

It's not a fantasy. It certainly has nothing to do with libertarians.

It is a "cut to the chase" identification of the underlying problem.

It's an identification of the concept that it is also immoral to take one mans wealth and give it to someone else to whom it does not belong. That I should have my money taken at gunpoint if necessary so you can read free of charge is an abomination. Like your disfunction.

[Principled]

While were at it, there are a couple of books that I think should be dumped as well...not many...just a couple ...

lol

[The Louiswu]

...and all I want is for the courts to weed out that RAP music and a couple of books I find offensive.

All I have to do is convince enough people I'm right, sue a few libraries get the whole thing taken to court, have the courts rule in my favor and my problems with RAP music in libraries will be solved.

my points are: this ruling will solve nothing, and will only open the door to more censorship. It is just a very lame attempt to placate some small segment of society that wants to make everyone else play by their rules.

[Principled]

my points are: this ruling will solve nothing, and will only open the door to more censorship. It is just a very lame attempt to placate some small segment of society that wants to make everyone else play by their rules.

My points too!

[KCmark]

Taliban ping

I have tested several internet filters (for a library system, no less). They don't work. They are lax on male genitailia and they over protect on stuff like breast cancer. How about we take responsibilty for our actions, and not open the door to more lawsuits. I can see it now:

"Johnny saw a tittie. OMFG! Someone has to pay."

Give me a break. Where did this "for the children" group come from? The paries are merging into one big screw America party.

The citizen has rights (or should).

[drlevy88]

"Johnny saw a tittie. OMFG! Someone has to paynot pay (i.e. the taxpayer)."

[jmc813]

Greens, Libertarians, Socialists, Democrats: they are all moral-liberal allies since they all agree on social issues.

Are you disapointed that Jim Robinson calls Libertarians "our good friends"?

[goodnesswins]

I do NOT think PORNO should be available in public libraries to ADULTS, either......just because something is "available" does not make it the librarian's responsibility to give it to a patron. Make the idgits who want it PAY FOR IT somewhere else, like they used to have to.

[goodnesswins]

IOW....anyone caught viewing porn in a library should be thrown out of the library. That's MY OPINION.

[Aquinasfan]

The Supreme Court ruled on Monday that public libraries must filter out pornography from their computers, despite claims by some librarians that this hinders free speech.

I'm pleasantly stunned. Couldn't they find a right to smut in the Constitution somewhere? Or just make something up?