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[morrigirl]

Don't use the Naperville Public Library

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[ma-ee-uh.livejournal.com]

Hey...if you sent me the you-know-what, I didn't get it.

[yobachi2003.livejournal.com]

Despite the supposed noble purpose I'm against because I don't want the government spying on what the fuck I'm doing on the internet.

Big Brother is Watching.

[yobachi2003.livejournal.com]

Well accept when I'm at this government job, then that's just my ass - they have a right to look then.

[electra310.livejournal.com]

I dunno, it's one thing if they make you confirm your identity to use your own computer and internet. What you do on your own computer at home is your business. Going to the public library to look at porno or pipe bombs is just skeezy. I seriously don't think the librarians at the Naperville public library have any desire to read my floofy emails to my husband or play with my Neopets.

And hey, when I was a kid, we had to take a class before we'd be allowed to use the library computers. And that was to do things like play Carmen Sandiego, because the library didn't have internet access. I'd have totally preferred giving them my fingerprint instead of sitting through that asinine class of how to not break the Macintosh.

[gender-euphoric.livejournal.com]

wow..your library had computes when you were a kid?

[gender-euphoric.livejournal.com]

good info to have. my quest to avoid napervillesuburbanhell will continue.

[morrigirl.livejournal.com]

No, I haven't sent it yet. Came into work and Madam Boss sprung a surprise staff meeting on us that lasted for three hours. I just got back from lunch, I have some work to take care of, then I need to touch up the you-know-what and THEN I'll finally be able to send it.

Oy, I hate not having internet at home.

[ma-ee-uh.livejournal.com]

Oh, OK.

And you should totally get online at home!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Um, IMO.

[electra310.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah, a whole "computer room" with three or four Macs that all played games. You could play Math Rabbit, or Oregon Trail, or Where in the(Insert Temporal-Spatial Dimension Here) is Carmen Sandiego. Basically anything they could justify as being educational. And of course there was the InfoTrac computer, for looking up books, but that was boring.

[morrigirl.livejournal.com]

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.