This kind of thing happened regularly in a library I worked in two years
ago. All I can see from the article is an outraged parent who should have
known better. With the amount of hype about levels of pornography on the
Internet, shouldn't people with children be a little more wary when they
sign consent forms to allow their children to use the internet in their
school or library? We had consent forms in our library which parents signed
without reading, and information leaflets which were likewise ignored. If
parents then came in to complain about their children accessing pornographic
or violent websites, they could withdraw their consent and their child would
not have access to the service any more. The service at the time was
unfiltered and uncensored, but for the majority of the time, you have to
actively seek out this type of material, and users were regularly thrown out
of the building for flaunting the guidelines (our acceptable use policy). If
the child in the article had been accessing this material regularly (which
he had) he should have been closely supervised by staff and the parents
informed of his offensive behaviour (this formed part of our acceptable use
policy).
Peter Edwards
(Newham)
-----Original Message-----
From: Hanstock, Terry [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 27 February 2001 10:50
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Child accesses porn on the web in a library
There's a story in the Ipswich Evening Star about a 10 year old Suffolk boy
accessing "porn" websites at his local library. Full details at:
http://www.eveningstar.co.uk/Content/news/htm/010226porn.asp
Terry Hanstock
Nottingham
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