should library patrons be allowed to view pornographic materials on library cpu?

[HoosierPoliticalJunkie]

Providing access to porn is not a librarys business.

Nor is it a library's business to define what qualifies as pornographic.

Bingo.

Of course, the optimal solution to this entire 'problem' would be for there to public ownership of the Internet backbone and allowing low income families free or reduced access, but that's rather unlikely, given that the Internet has become laissez faire's greatest frontier ever.

...because lack of access to pornography is one of the great injustices facing the poor? I'd be more concerned about, oh I don't know, their kids being able to access sources to write papers for school and stuff.

The poor should have equal access to the Internet regardless of how they use it.

This is absolutely ridiculous.  The public shouldn't have to pay for a poor person to further a destructive habit in the presence of children in a public forum.  Poor people face many problems.....lack of access to porn is not one of them.

[HoosierPoliticalJunkie]

The poor should have equal access to the Internet regardless of how they use it.

This is absolutely ridiculous.  The public shouldn't have to pay for a poor person to further a destructive habit in the presence of children in a public forum.  Poor people face many problems.....lack of access to porn is not one of them.

Spoken like both a prude and a privileged - the poor definitely do have a problem about lack of access to pornography.

1. It can be disturbing to children to allow this material on public computers.
2. Using your logic, the poor shouldn't just be able to access a driving license - they all should have access to a Bugatti without paying.  
3. How are poor people suffering due to this not being allowed in libraries?  We already have subsidized, unrestricted Internet access for people on food stamps.
4. Pornography is in no way a right and has been shown in studies to have destructive qualities.  I don't support banning it, but something that morally decadent should not be found in the public square with our most impressionable having to see it because of someone's selfish desires.