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Local community standards-- it's your right to speak up in a public library meeting and ask for filters, or fill out a comment card at the desk.
Just as I can voice my opinion that Jews or Negroes should be excluded from using the library's services, if I feel that way.

But they'd better not do it:

Color is a material model with no inherent jurisdiction, a child is an imperfect jurisdiction that requires a substitute supervising jurisdiction. Refusing a child's entrance would not be a violation or discrimination, it would be exercising substitute jurisdiction appropriately according to community standards.

Hello?... I don't have an answer... talk amongst yourselves. What was that stuff about the color of law? I thought justice was blind-- even color-blind. I can't remember-- do HATE crimes really exist in law, or was it all just a bad dream? Hard core and porn on the internet ought to be considered a HATE crime, because it really has nothing to do with sex (speech)-- but a lot to do with hate and violence (the product or result). Right? You know, like rape-- it's not about the sex, it's about the feeling of POWER and making other people feel powerless. Taking a more liberal point of view can be so much more refreshing-- Has anyone ever tried that one on the Supremes? Public libraries could swear to help prevent hate crimes-- you know, like the rest of us swore to look out for terrorists. :-)