So what's tradeoff?

Actually, to tell you truth, I am not exactly sure why libraries believe it is necessary to give people access to internet at all. Yes, a library should be computerized, but there are plenty of publications available on compact disk and other media. Perhaps connecting a library to internet was a mistake to begin with.

So one possible alternative is to disconnect libraries from web entirely. After all, it's getting to point where most people are connected in one way or another anyway. Thus, instead of allowing internet access, a library could build a useful and complete collection of material available on CD, DVD and so forth and make that available to public.

Unfortunately (or perhaps fortunately, depending upon your viewpoint) internet access for libraries is here to stay. This is one of methods that has been chosen to promote going to library, to change it from a dusty book tomb to something which is actually useful to people.

Well, another alternative is instead of trying to filter out bad stuff, why not only accept a limited subset of sites? There could be a library database of reviewed and accepted sites, and those sites would be only ones allowed to be viewed or accessed on library systems. This is, after all, way new books get added to shelves - someone reads it, decides it needs to be added to collection and it is purchased.

Using this method, you could create allow for constitutional freedoms, much as libraries do with their hardcopy materials, without allowing grossly unacceptable material into building.

Of course, question must be asked: who gets to choose what is acceptable or not?

Personally, I would not envy people on that committee.

My feeling is libraries are not intended to be pornographic movie theatres or adult bookstore arcades. PCs are everywhere and if some teenager or adult wants material he or she can find it from their home or whatever.

So I don't see need to make this material available on publicly funded library systems. We don't put Hustler and other materials in public libraries, do we? At least not out in open?

However, I also believe that other adults need to be allowed to make their own decisions as to what's acceptable and what's not. That is a fundamental right for all adults.

So like I said earlier, this is a thorny issue which will not go away soon. In fact, it will probably become more heated as time goes on and more and more materials of all kinds appear on internet. I don't envy those who do have to make hard decisions, as they will not be liked by anyone.

H. The folks that feel they need to steal someone's stuff in order to make money, are operating under lack/dense energy and will attract more of same. (they are thinking they can not make money unless they steal someone's stuff).

Call it law of attraction, coincidence, or reciprocation. The point is, is that it works, it works for us on an individual basis as well as business, commerce and international relations.

I. If we want to stop having this protection issue, then we need to stop giving it so much dang attention, and then yes it will just go away. (can you believe I even *said* that? yep.....it's truth, it's way energy works, we have taught ourselves completely opposite that, and that is why we *think* not *feel*, that we have to protect ourselves; we get what we focus on.......... plain and simple, no judgement in how it works for us or *against* us, it simply works that way based on how energy/consciousness/spirit/god/universe works.)

J. Everything.....Every THING......is about energy under- standing mechanics of how it works. As long as we operate under guise of human logic and intellect only, we will always live in fear or lack.

K. It is not way things really are....but it's way many have set them up to be, in order to protect us from other guy, and there is lots of money to be made in business of protection of others.

L. I know too much about how things really work, that I no longer operate any part of my life that way. I can only do that for myself and am not responsible for choices that others make. But what I do know, is that it is changing......

M. Pollyanna approach? you betcha......Heaven on Earth approach? You betcha. It's going to snag us by pants one day, and surprisingly we will still be very happy, and we will still create wonderful sweet money, in huge amounts; but what we will also do is take love/hate relationship away form money arena and it will flow to everything and everyone, in ease. Why? Because that's way things work. But there we go, we will grab it, and have to constrict things, by protecting ourselves. (contradicts everything we say we want!)