What the government is saying is, "If you want to receive moeny from us, you must do this." Any library that wants to receive porn on its Internet servers is perfectly free to refuse the money and do business as usual.
The fatal flaw in this arguement is exactly the same as the "lady" who got nude and covered herself in chocolate and said it was "censorship" if the government didn't give her a grant for her "artistic endeavors."
Anybody has a constitutional right to create whatever they call "art." Nobody has a constitutional right to receive taxpayers' money to support that art.
With the librarians, it is one step worse. What they are defending is not merely offensive and stupid, it is also illegal, They might as well say, it offends the Constitution not to allow our patrons to bring guns into the libraries.
Oops, I forgot. These are lefties. I don't suppose they will make that last argument.
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Yep. And it's the standard way the government operates.
They don't tell the states they must enact seatbelt laws, they just say that if you don't do so, we won't give you Federal highway money. Ditto for blood alcohol level rules.
Where are these people when our political speech is being restricted? It isn't about the Constitution for them. It's about a liberal political agenda.
That needed repeating...
In other words, extortion.
---max