I really don't like the Bible either, but I respect a Christain's right to be close minded. The same way that I want them to respect my right to celebrate Halloween, to cut grass on Sunday and to live outside of what they feel is good.
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I don't like it either, but whenever I go to the book story there are Forgotten Realms books in the same section as The Hitchhikers Guide. I think often the rest of the world lumps use all together as geeks. I have some friends who only read fantasy. I kinda get into Spaceships and stuff. I liked Harry Potter, but it's a very different kind of literature than I would call Science Fiction
I don't think that children should have unrestricted access to the Internet, and I don't think that the purpose
of library computers is so that people can access pornography. However, I don't think that it's the
governments place to say what information I have access to either. I have seen many books in the library
that I would not want small children to have access to because they have unsuitable content. However,
should we ban the Catcher in the Rye, Tropic of Cancer, or the Bible.
Should we restrict people from viewing any literature that has opinions that are contrary to the governments
views.
Why not just require a parent to sit with the child and monitor their online sessions. Wouldn't a responsible
parent do that anyway.
I can understand that an ISP wouldn't want to overload it's news server with newsgroups that tend to contain a lot of dirty pictures. However it's not fair to their users to discontinue a service that they have been providing with little or no notice. It would be different if they said that it was changing it's policy and that they would still provide access for an additional charge and route those requests to a third party USENET server. But to just stop providing access to paying customers is unforgivable.
Once you agree to use an ISP's service you are locked into them. It's very hard to change because you lose your email account, you have to register your host name to a new DNS server, you have to reconfigure system services.
I like to think that when I'm a paying customer, my ISP is going to be considerate when changing any policys.
About two years ago the Barney fan club offered a free prize to any child who reported a violation of Barney's copyright. Many balloon sculptors at the time made Barney balloon animals for children. Several of us received letters from Barney's lawyers to stop. Disney and Warner Brother's have done similar things also.
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I really don't like the Bible either, but I respect a Christain's right to be close minded. The same way that I want them to respect my right to celebrate Halloween, to cut grass on Sunday and to live outside of what they feel is good.
I don't like it either, but whenever I go to the book story there are Forgotten Realms books in the same section as The Hitchhikers Guide. I think often the rest of the world lumps use all together as geeks. I have some friends who only read fantasy. I kinda get into Spaceships and stuff. I liked Harry Potter, but it's a very different kind of literature than I would call Science Fiction
I don't think that children should have unrestricted access to the Internet, and I don't think that the purpose
of library computers is so that people can access pornography. However, I don't think that it's the
governments place to say what information I have access to either. I have seen many books in the library
that I would not want small children to have access to because they have unsuitable content. However,
should we ban the Catcher in the Rye, Tropic of Cancer, or the Bible.
Should we restrict people from viewing any literature that has opinions that are contrary to the governments
views.
Why not just require a parent to sit with the child and monitor their online sessions. Wouldn't a responsible
parent do that anyway.
I can understand that an ISP wouldn't want to overload it's news server with newsgroups that tend to contain a lot of dirty pictures. However it's not fair to their users to discontinue a service that they have been providing with little or no notice. It would be different if they said that it was changing it's policy and that they would still provide access for an additional charge and route those requests to a third party USENET server. But to just stop providing access to paying customers is unforgivable.
Once you agree to use an ISP's service you are locked into them. It's very hard to change because you lose your email account, you have to register your host name to a new DNS server, you have to reconfigure system services.
I like to think that when I'm a paying customer, my ISP is going to be considerate when changing any policys.
About two years ago the Barney fan club offered a free prize to any child who reported a violation of Barney's copyright. Many balloon sculptors at the time made Barney balloon animals for children. Several of us received letters from Barney's lawyers to stop. Disney and Warner Brother's have done similar things also.