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Wednesday, November 13, 2002 |
Good article on Wired.com on a difficult issue. Should public libraries be required to install software filters that prevent its computer users from viewing pornographic material?
The parent in me tends to like the idea. However, the big problem is that this amounts to censorship and when the government starts to censor content it establishes the beginning of a slippery slope? For one, what exactly constitutes pornographachic or obscene material? Even the Supreme Court couldn't answer that in its landmark case against George Carlin, coming to the conclusion that they "know it when they see it". Would erotic artwork that might find itself into any public museum in the country be censored? It's the application of this that really concerns me.
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