More Pressure on ISPs
AP – “The first bill, passed 409-2, expands the reporting duties of Internet service providers with respect to violations of child sexual exploitation and pornography laws. The ISPs would have to...
View ArticleWeb porn hard to halt in libraries
The Columbus Dispatch – “Foiled filters, other factors hinder enforcement”
View ArticlePorn or Art at the Library?
WANE-TV – “A Fort Wayne man is on a mission to ban what he calls pornography at the Allen County Public Library.”
View ArticleLibrarian Not Fired For Porn Report
KQCA – “Tulare County officials said they fired a library aide for poor performance, not because she reported that a man was using a library computer to view child pornography.”
View ArticlePorn issue ancillary – it shouldn’t decide vote on library bond
GilroyDispatch – “Fellow Dispatch Columnists Cynthia Walker and Lisa Pampuch are debating the upcoming library bond and Walker’s reasons, as Pampuch sees it, for voting no on Measure F. The debate has...
View ArticleBritish man prosecuted for publishing “obscene†story online
Geeks Are Sexy – “In a test case which could have severe ramifications for free speech on the internet, a 35 year old man is being prosecuted under British obscenity laws for a story he allegedly wrote...
View ArticleMan accused of downloading child porn at Lake Oswego library
Oregonlive – “A 25-year-old man has been charged with downloading illegal child pornography from the Internet at the Lake Oswego Public Library.”
View ArticlePorn-surfing homeless man charged with threatening to blow up Portsmouth library
Fosters – “Police have arrested a homeless man who allegedly threatened to blow up the public library earlier this month after he was thrown out for “surfing porn” there. Shaun Cadorette, 23, with no...
View ArticleDrink, drug and porn users logged at library
What a headline. Here’s more “One sleeping man was so hard to move that three police community support officers had to be called out to remove him. Discarded needles, porn-surfing PC users and unusual...
View ArticleConvicted Beverly librarian wants pension back
MyFoxBoston – “The former director of the Beverly Public Library who pleaded guilty to possessing child pornography continues to fight for his public pension. Thomas Scully has appealed a district...
View ArticleOhio high court narrowly interprets anti-porn law
AP – “In its unanimous decision, the court said a 2004 law extending the state’s definition of “material harmful to minors” to the Internet is clearly intended to apply only to person-to-person...
View ArticleMass. official aims to shame library porn viewers
AP – “A city councilor in Massachusetts thinks he’s come up with a way to stop people looking at pornography on public library computers – name them and shame them. Quincy Councilor Daniel Raymondi has...
View ArticleBill addresses adult material at public libraries
WCF Courier – “Legislation approved by the Iowa Senate will limits the access of R or NC-17 rated materials to patrons under age 17. The restrictions were amended to Senate File 410, a bill that...
View ArticleLawmakers: Pornography has ‘permeated our society,’ library filters backed
Spokesman Review – “Idaho libraries would be required to filter Internet access for adults, under legislation that just passed the House on a 63-7 vote and headed to the Senate; they’re already...
View ArticleL.A. to debate what to do about porn in libraries
Contra Costa Times – “A City Council committee is scheduled today to consider what to do about people who want to look at pornography on public library computers. The Arts, Parks, Health and Aging...
View ArticleCity libraries say ‘checking out’ porn protected by First Amendment
NY Post – “Shakespeare’s plays, Einstein’s theories — and porn queen Jenna Jameson’s steamy online sexcapades. New Yorkers can take their pick at the city’s public libraries, thanks to a policy that...
View ArticleChecking Out – Porn Books & Librarians
Paris Review – “Porn books and librarians have always had a passionate, mutually defining relationship—it was, in fact, a prudish French librarian in the early nineteenth century who coined the word...
View ArticleShe Was a Librarian, but the Internet Said Otherwise
NYTimes.com – “Mistaken identity is an occupational hazard for people who are mentioned even fleetingly on the Internet. Still, consider Peter Agree’s shock when he searched the Web for references to...
View ArticlePortland high schools take byte out of laptop use at home
The Portland Press Herald – “Over the next two weeks, Portland’s school district will install filtering software on laptops issued to high school students, in order to block access to pornography,...
View ArticleBrevard libraries pull erotic best-seller ‘Fifty Shades of Grey’
Florida Today – The erotic “Fifty Shades of Grey” apparently is too blue for the Brevard County Public Libraries system. The wildly popular first installment of a titillating trilogy by British author...
View ArticleLarry Sanger’s Screencast of Wikipedia’s Porn Problem
“Wikipedia co-founder Larry Sanger, who left the online encyclopedia not long after it launched to the public, has seemingly embarked on a one-man crusade to rid Wikipedia of its pornographic content....
View ArticlePornography in Public Causes Some to Gasp, Others to Shrug
“On a recent morning at the main public library here, dozens of people sat and stood at computers, searching job-hunting sites, playing games, watching music videos. And some looked at naked pictures...
View ArticleOrland Park library pornography debate leads to changes
“A suburban library is altering its computer procedures while it reviews a controversial policy that allows adult patrons to view pornography. The Orland Park Public Library will now check...
View ArticleProposed bill aims at preventing online porn in South Carolina
“People buying computers in South Carolina would be limited in their access to porn online under newly proposed legislation.A bill pre-filed this month by state Rep. Bill Chumley would require sellers...
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