A few months back some lady wrote to the New York Times Magazine's Ethicist and asked if it was ethical to ask a librarian to remove an individual who was cruising for porn on the public library computer. Much to my surprise the Ethicist called the NYPL and asked their policy on such things. They told him that if one patron was offended by the sort of information a person on a neighboring computer was looking up, it's not up to the librarian to remove the "offeding" individual, it's the choice of the offended person to move. The computers are there for public use and for the dispersement of all manner of information, offensive or not. And I agree. Public computer, public library, you should be able to look up whatever the hell you want there without the chance that anyone outside the library will find out.
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Date: 2005-06-02 11:53 pm (UTC)