Re: Dangerous Libraries?
Danny Yee (danny@staff.cs.usyd.edu.au)
Fri, 23 Oct 1998 12:12:48 +1000 (EST)
Jennifer Cram writes:
> Small boys/rude stuff has always been around. Some 20 years ago a mother
> in Coffs Harbour raised Cain because her son had borrowed a
> copy of "the book of the film" - Caligula I think it was- had torn out a
> photo which included a nude figure and put it under his pillow. The
> library was able to be equally strident about misuse of library property!
I think that's the key point: we've been here before. I borrowed _The
Story of O_ and volumes of de Sade from my local library when I was
in my mid-teens -- and I'm sure there are plenty of people who think
that sort of material should be kept away from children. Libraries in
Australia won the fight to be able to hold such works long ago and we're
just going to have to fight the same battle again over Net access.
Danny.