This is getting a bit out of hand. The law being considered will allow for both adult/uncensored workstations and non-adult/censored workstations. What you have here is parents concerned that their kids are not exposed to pornography. If you are not a parent, don't reply; you do not yet understand. Children do not, and will not ever, have the rights that adults have (for example, children can not drink, can not drive, can not smoke, can not (legally) have sex, must go to school, can not work in factories until they are old enough, and so on). Yes, blocking is not a perfect option. The other option is to turn off the library Internet altogether. I like that option much less, but it is the next step. Let me know if there is another option. I'd like to know. I doubt that the/. people understand the problem now (one came knocking on my door yesterday). Give them a few years and they will grow up and graduate from Hope College and go out into the real world (not to be mistaken for the lame MTV show) and have their own kids. They will then begin to do what parents do: Protect their children from the screwballs of the world the best they can with the tools that are at hand.
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This is getting a bit out of hand. The law being considered will allow for both adult/uncensored workstations and non-adult/censored workstations. What you have here is parents concerned that their kids are not exposed to pornography. If you are not a parent, don't reply; you do not yet understand. Children do not, and will not ever, have the rights that adults have (for example, children can not drink, can not drive, can not smoke, can not (legally) have sex, must go to school, can not work in factories until they are old enough, and so on). Yes, blocking is not a perfect option. The other option is to turn off the library Internet altogether. I like that option much less, but it is the next step. Let me know if there is another option. I'd like to know. I doubt that the /. people understand the problem now (one came knocking on my door yesterday). Give them a few years and they will grow up and graduate from Hope College and go out into the real world (not to be mistaken for the lame MTV show) and have their own kids. They will then begin to do what parents do: Protect their children from the screwballs of the world the best they can with the tools that are at hand.