I’m writing to show my support for Everett Public Library Director Mark Nesse resisting Internet filters on our library computers. As someone who regularly uses my library card and the library computers, I am totally against these ridiculous filters. Listening to the people who lived through Nazi Germany, it seems that they all have the same things to say. Their freedoms being taken away didn’t happen overnight. It happened over time.
It is not paranoid to say that the time to protect our freedoms is now. Let’s start with these silly, feel-good filters and then move onto the corrupt Patriot Act.
Viewing images on the Internet (something they’ll find if they want to) is nowhere near as harmful as the hyper paranoid preach. Often, with these types of issues, hysteria rules and we have uber-parents coming out screaming about sexualizing our children. Often, these displays are ostentatious. They’re meant to show everyone else what great, concerned parents they are. We’re all concerned. We all care. Of course we do. But it’s odd to me that we’re even discussing this issue when there are far worse threats to our children. The new Cat in The Hat film has racy jokes. Anybody picketing the cineplex?
You’re not going to find children sitting around a computer monitor at our Everett libraries watching porn. It just doesn’t happen. Anyone who says it does is exaggerating or is delusional. Leave our libraries alone and do your parenting at home.
Everett
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