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jhaas

join:2000-04-12
Coraopolis, PA
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Re: Good Decision

as a PA resident, I agree... what many of the folks who have responded to this chain have missed is that this wasn't about LIBRARIES, it was about AOL and Earthlink and any other ISP serving PA customers being required to filter all internet content BEFORE it got to the respective destination... in effect, STATE MANDATED CENSORSHIP of all internet content. What was dressed up as an act to "protect children" was a blatant 1st Amendment violation and should never have been proposed in the first place.

ALL FILTERING AT THE LIBRARIES REMAINS INTACT.

Oh, may I remind them from WHERE our Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security came from?

And shall I also remind them that many of PA's public libraries are now only open 4 days a week due to a lack of funding? Or that those libraries are required to maintain the filters in order to keep what little funds they receive EVEN THOUGH REMOVING THE FILTERS WOULD SAVE THEM MUCH NEEDED FUNDS???

The internet was an off-shoot of a defense department project and was never intended for children. Unfortunately, most people think that surfing the web is a "safe" act akin to "watching TV" (sic), which is why their computers are drenched in "spyware" or turned into "spam zombies" and they have no idea how it happens. Some are so clueless, they think AOL "is" the internet.

Yet they probably let their children watch MTV or HBO or most other cable content totally unsupervised and think nothing of it... or buy them all the latest "let's kill everything that moves" video games for Christmas every year... and yet they claim "the evil internet" is the problem... wake up already.
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join:2000-12-17
Naperville, IL

Re: Good Decision

Probably true.

In our house we use internet content filters, V-chip supervision and buy only age appropriate games and movies. No reason for a child to grow up as fast as our society seems to push.
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