Source: Library ThingLink to November 16 Charlotte Observer article, "Library fights porn by making sites load slowly". (via Resource Shelf)
Excerpt: After nearly 90 people were caught viewing porn on its public computers this year, the Greensboro Public Library is fighting back.
The News & Record of Greensboro reported 89 violators were caught in the Central Library in the first half of 2009, leading library officials to buy a device that identifies porn sites and makes them load so slowly they are difficult to view on the city's public computers.
Under the library's policy for using its computers, anyone caught breaking the rules is told to stop. If that warning is ignored, the penalty is a one-day ban, then a 30-day ban for the next infraction, and finally, a trespassing charge.
Kimberly Romie, whose Piedmont Homeschoolers Association members have increasingly complained, said some parents have stopped taking children to the library.
Excerpt: After nearly 90 people were caught viewing porn on its public computers this year, the Greensboro Public Library is fighting back.
The News & Record of Greensboro reported 89 violators were caught in the Central Library in the first half of 2009, leading library officials to buy a device that identifies porn sites and makes them load so slowly they are difficult to view on the city's public computers.
Under the library's policy for using its computers, anyone caught breaking the rules is told to stop. If that warning is ignored, the penalty is a one-day ban, then a 30-day ban for the next infraction, and finally, a trespassing charge.
Kimberly Romie, whose Piedmont Homeschoolers Association members have increasingly complained, said some parents have stopped taking children to the library.
The Greensboro Public Library's Acceptable Internet Use Agreement is found here.
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