Library time
My daughter, Emily, is busy on a computer in the children's section at the Cobourg library. She is palying an interactive game on the TVO Kids web site, a site she really loves.
The recent controversy over the viewing of pornography using library computers has caused a real conflict within me. The computers in the chdren's section are heavily controllednwhile tha adult computers upstairs are not.
A 12-year old boy and his mother discovered a man viewing porn on one of the adult computers. The mother complained. The librarian did not stop him. Instead, she put up a screen and he kept viewing.
As a journalist, academicn and writer, the sanctity of freedom of expression is sacred. But, as a father of an eight-year old girl I want v ery tough controls.
The recent controversy over the viewing of pornography using library computers has caused a real conflict within me. The computers in the chdren's section are heavily controllednwhile tha adult computers upstairs are not.
A 12-year old boy and his mother discovered a man viewing porn on one of the adult computers. The mother complained. The librarian did not stop him. Instead, she put up a screen and he kept viewing.
As a journalist, academicn and writer, the sanctity of freedom of expression is sacred. But, as a father of an eight-year old girl I want v ery tough controls.
posted by Robert Washburn at 1:31 AM
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