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[FYI] Library Is Sued Over Boy's Access to Pornography
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- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 08:58:32 +0100
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Library Is Sued Over Boy's Access to Pornography
Internet: Mother says lack of blocking software
violated 12-year-old's right
to a safe place. Livermore officials fear being forced
to act as censors. By JOHN M. GLIONNA, Times Staff
Writer
Ten times last summer, a 12-year-old boy
visited the Livermore Public Library,
floppy disk in hand, and took his place at the
public computer ports.
There he downloaded dozens of sexually
explicit images from
the Internet, which he later printed on a
relative's computer and showed to friends around
school.
When the boy's mother learned about the
photographs, her
wrath was swift: She sued the library and the
city for allowing her son access to the obscene
materials.
[...]
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