Saturday, December 27, 2008

Censorship or freedom of thought, belief, opinion & expression?

The local library board has chosen to not put filters on its' computers to "protect the children" from viewing porn. And I for one, applaud them. After all censorship is a slippery slope & had they decided to cave in to pressure from parents, no one would be able to access sites that have info on things related to porn. Such as sexually transmitted diseases, teen pregnancy, heck pregnancy in general, etc etc.

Although of course parents are up in arms over this & I don't really get why. I mean why not supervise your kid(s) while at the library. And at home there are a couple of things you can do to make sure your kid(s) don't see what you don't want them to see.

1. Make sure that the computer is a place you can easily view. In other words, don't let your kid(s) have a computer in their room. And 2. Install parental controls. Yes, it is that easy folks.