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ACLU Blasts East Baton Rouge Parish's Cyber-Compliance RulesPatrons of the East Baton Rouge (La.) Parish Library must now affirm in writing that they've read the board's policy forbidding them to display "illegal, inappropriate, and obscene" material during online sessions there. As added insurance, the board-approved policy also denies violators future Internet access. That has angered Joe Cook, executive director of the ACLU of Louisiana. "What gives them the omnipotent knowledge of what is good for you and me?" he told the Baton Rouge Advocate Online October 22. "This is the morality police gone amuck." Emphasizing that library workers will not be looking over patrons' shoulders, EBRPL Director John Richard defended the policy, which also orders the use of filters on children's-area machines and bars use of chat rooms and e-mail, as a protection against coded communiques by pedophiles and drug traffickers. Posted November 9, 1998. |
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