The Lifeguard
Illinois: Still at a library near you, unfiltered porn.
The American Library Association (ALA) is still at it. Using misleading and outdated information the ALA has coerced the Judiciary and Civil Law Committee of the Illinois House of Representatives into defeating house bill HB 2458 by a 8 to 6 vote.
The bill would have required each public library to have "a technology protection measure to prevent the display on a public computer of any visual depictions that are obscene, child pornography, or harmful to minors." The bill also allowed a library to disable the filter for "an adult engaged in legitimate research or some other lawful purpose." Apparently the ALA has a problem with protecting our children from online pornography.
This is just the latest salvo by the ALA to block at all costs any measure which would protect children. Apparently they have other ideas for what your children should be viewing while online. The ALA is intent on serving innocent children up to the sleazy porn site operators ALA-carte!
Read the story from the ALA's site here. Be sure to follow their links which shout with joy in bold type how the bill was defeated and rejected. With caring librarians like this who needs enemies?
Illinois residents interested in protecting children in libraries should contact Rep. Kevin Joyce (D), Patricia Bailey (D) and Patricia R. Bellock (R) who sponsored the bill.
The bill would have required each public library to have "a technology protection measure to prevent the display on a public computer of any visual depictions that are obscene, child pornography, or harmful to minors." The bill also allowed a library to disable the filter for "an adult engaged in legitimate research or some other lawful purpose." Apparently the ALA has a problem with protecting our children from online pornography.
This is just the latest salvo by the ALA to block at all costs any measure which would protect children. Apparently they have other ideas for what your children should be viewing while online. The ALA is intent on serving innocent children up to the sleazy porn site operators ALA-carte!
Read the story from the ALA's site here. Be sure to follow their links which shout with joy in bold type how the bill was defeated and rejected. With caring librarians like this who needs enemies?
Illinois residents interested in protecting children in libraries should contact Rep. Kevin Joyce (D), Patricia Bailey (D) and Patricia R. Bellock (R) who sponsored the bill.
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