I have the Intertubes at home again!!!! (At least for now, he said skeptically.)

[MiddleFingerMom]

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Funny. There are a LOT of websites that I go to for picture/toon sources, but my two favorite were
blocked/filtered by the library as... you guessed it...
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... tasteless!!!
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The hospital blocks my favorite for that but allows by second choice. And a few of them are filtered
for "sex" -- as in sexual content. They're big sites that have different sections -- I had never paid
attention and actually went and looked -- they appear to be mostly softcore cheesecake bikini shots
and such.
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The library disappointed me there. I have no problem with them blocking porn (the University library
didn't and, even without children, it sometimes caused problems that I won't detail -- no physical
assaults, but eeewww). During the post-911 days, when everyone was kneejerk-reacting to measures
put forth by the Bush administration, librarians seemed to be the only people in the country (I'm being
facetious) who were actually taking public stances of resistance and refusal against censorship and
monitoring reading habits without a court order.
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Who'da thunk it... but librarians were my heroes.
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This library system, as Blue as Tucson is in a Red State, appears to be scaling back on their defense
and/or support of those rights. Censored cheesecake shot?!?!?!?
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[HeiressofBickworth]

1. So now

you can go back to playing around on the 'puter without regard to proper dress. You will be so much more comfortable!

No, thanks, you don't need to post a picture -- we can put our imaginations to work instead.

So, seriously, how are you this fine evening?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. My dear MiddleFingerMom!

I know how glad you must be to have internet service at home again!

Funny how quickly we get used to our normal circumstances, isn't it?

Welcome home!

[applegrove]

3. I don't have a problem with certain

websites being blocked in public places where kids go. I mean public libraries are dangerous enough places without adding porn or suggestive photos to the mix.

[MiddleFingerMom]

4. I have no problem with porn being blocked -- that caused enough problems in an adult college-aged...

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... situation. But cheesecake and "tasteless"? I have no problem with children seeing swimsuits --
in this day and age, that's the least of our worries about "harmful exposure". I was raised in a
very repressive environment (some would say, "Can you say... America", but there were a lot
of factors that combined to have the potential to have made me a very dysfunctional human
being) and I truly believe that if I hadn't spent my "growing years" in Germany, I would have
been what I would consider now to be one sick puppy -- not dangerous, but maybe the sort
of person we all read about in "The Scarlet Letter". It was highly conducive to both repression
and extreme misogyny.
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And the library is often the only place that "people of lesser means" can get access. Down a
slippery slope, some would advocate that they should be damned grateful that they get more
than job hunt info.
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