Watching Porn At NYC Libraries

[PoliticalChic]

Yep, electronic porn too graphic for CBS 2 to show on television is available on-line for adults — on publically used computers at the city’s 200 library branches.

All people have to do is search for it.

“I probably wouldn’t feel comfortable if someone was watching on the computer next to me,” patron April Cantor told Rapoport.

Richard Reyes-Gavilan of the Brooklyn Public Library said that’s the policy — that even pornography is protected by the first amendment and recognized as free speech.

“With adults, anything that you can get on the Internet, you can legally get on a computer in the library,” Reyes-Gavilan said. “It’s difficult, but we err on the side of free and open access.”

Watching Pornography At New York Public Library Is Legal, According To Officials « CBS New York

This is the nanny state that has virtually banned smoking and wants to limit people's salt intake. But exposing children to porn and perv's? It's called freedom!

Another example of neo-Marxism, and the belief that any and every method to destroy traditional mores and values is a step toward utopia.

1. Wilhelm Reich pressed the thesis that psychological problems can be traced to sexual repression, and, therefore, only by the sexual liberation from societal mores could people be cured. Thus, modern feminism. “…the repression of the sexual needs creates a general weakening of intellect and emotional functioning; in particular, it makes people lack independence, will-power and critical faculties.” Marriage, in fact, ruins lives” “Marital misery, to the extent to which it does not exhaust itself in the marital conflicts, is poured out over the children.” Wilhelm Reich, “The Sexual Revolution: Toward a Self-Governing Character Structure,” p. 77-78, 111, 184.

2. O'Sullivan's First Law (a.k.a. O'Sullivan's Law), paraphrased by George Will as stating that any institution that is not libertarian and classically liberal will, over time, become collectivist and statist.

...including libraries, it seems.

 

[chanel]

Two New York City councilmen said they want to introduce a bill that would make it illegal to watch porn within 100 feet of a child in the library. The legislation would make it a misdemeanor and could be punishable with up to $1,000 in fines.

Council Members David Greenfield (D-Brooklyn) and Eric Ulrich (R-Queens) are spearheading the effort to keep public libraries g-rated for minors. "The last place we should be worried about our children spending time is a public library. They are safe havens for children, and not safe havens for perverts," said Ulrich. "It's a violation of public decency and it shouldn’t be there to begin with."

NYC Library Porn: Councilmen To Introduce Bill Restricting Porn In NYC Libraries - WPIX

I'm not sure how that would be enforced but maybe it will be a slight deterrent. Library cops?

 

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Yep, electronic porn too graphic for CBS 2 to show on television is available on-line for adults — on publically used computers at the city’s 200 library branches.

All people have to do is search for it.

“I probably wouldn’t feel comfortable if someone was watching on the computer next to me,” patron April Cantor told Rapoport.

Richard Reyes-Gavilan of the Brooklyn Public Library said that’s the policy — that even pornography is protected by the first amendment and recognized as free speech.

“With adults, anything that you can get on the Internet, you can legally get on a computer in the library,” Reyes-Gavilan said. “It’s difficult, but we err on the side of free and open access.”

Watching Pornography At New York Public Library Is Legal, According To Officials « CBS New York

This is the nanny state that has virtually banned smoking and wants to limit people's salt intake. But exposing children to porn and perv's? It's called freedom!

I'll bet the janitor has a lot of slop to clean up.

 

[chanel]

A Seattle librarian refused to force a man watching hardcore porn on a computer to move to a more discreet location, even after a woman with two children complained, according to the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

The Lake City librarian reportedly could see the screen, and sympathized with the woman's position, but maintained that the library "doesn't censor content" and could not "be in the business of monitoring what their patrons are doing at any given computer."

According to newspaper, the woman isn’t the first person to speak up. Several parents and teachers have complained about library patrons watching graphic pornography while children are present, the paper said.

The Seattle Public Library is upholding its decision to not censor anything (except, as the Seattle Post-Intelligencer points out, sleeping, eating, not wearing shoes, and talking loudly). And the discussion over there is pretty intense. What do you think?

Seattle Library Lets Man Watch Porn in View of Children | PCWorld

Not only won't they block it. They won't ask people to "move to a more discreet location".

What kind of creep watches porn in front of children? Perhaps some brave mother should ask the guy his name and then give a little call to the po-po.

 

[editec]

Well clearly not everybody at the NYPL is reading porn.

NYPL sends thousands of readers to my website every month.

No other public library even comes close to sending us so many visitors.

 

[chanel]

That's good news editec. But no one is saying "everyone is looking at porn". Just one perv can cause a "hostile environment". I spend a lot of time in our local library tutoring. I would say something and I would ask my friends in the PD to keep a close eye. That's what concerned parents and teachers should do. And librarians.

 

[blastoff]

There's porn on the internet?

 

[editec]

I blame Mayor Guiliani.

Once he drove the porn out of Times Square the Library was only two blocks away

There's actually a reason for that, ya know.

It's called:

Editec's law of the conservation of dirt. ​

As with as with the law of the conservation of energy and matter, so too it follows that dirt can neither be created nor destroyed. ​

Hence, in order to make one thing or place cleaner, one must, therefore, make some other place or thing equally dirty in the process.​

People sometimes ask me why I do not do a better job of tidying up my own house.​

I explain to them how futile the whole process of cleaning really is and then I refer them the ironclad physical reality of the law of conservation of dirt.​

 

[chanel]

Are you my son?

 

[FuelRod]

Homeless people get horny too.

 

[chanel]

Ha ha. That's what they make old socks for. Maybe they should hang out at the laundry mat instead.

 

[FuelRod]

Ha ha. That's what they make old socks for. Maybe they should hang out at the laundry mat instead.

Don't blow my patent that is pending. Old sock manufacturer. I expect to be an IPO about the size of Facebook in less than five years.

 

[CaughtInTheMid]

This is ridiculous, why doesn't the library just block the sites? in my opinion if you want to look at internet porn you should do it on your own dime at home or go to a XXX bookstore, they might as well just let us watch porn at work.

They have a lot of porn sites out there.
I know at my school there is people you walk around constantly, making sure you are not doing that sort of thing.
I don't think they should really try to censor too much though, maybe block some sites. In high school when they finally realized they needed to block certain things, it also made researching certain things difficult.

yep, even the best filtering services can't catch everything.

 

[zzzz]

Too bad they cannot force all the porn sites to go to a .XXX address, making it easier to censor. But then you get into who makes the decision what is porn and what is not.

Makes you wonder what all those kids are getting on their cellphones and smart phones? No matter how hard you try to keep that stuff from kids they will find a way to check it out.