Greensboro City Council's Anti-Porn Crusade

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Link to November 14 Greensboro [North Carolina] News and Record letter to the editor, "City’s crusade against porn bogs down library services".

Excerpt: The crusade to eradicate pornography from the Greensboro Public Library has had immediate and direct effects on the services provided to the public, particularly my ability to utilize Internet resources in an attempt to secure employment.

I would like to thank the City Council for bogging down an already beleaguered organization with an edict to eliminate filth from PC screens in the library. They have overwhelmed the IT department with data reports and surveys of website hits. All the while, I witness out-of-order signs on computers, staff that is constantly harassed about legitimate websites not loading and sporadic Wi-Fi availability. Since the mission of studying viewing habits of library users was launched, technology at our libraries has suffered.

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