[Lancey Howard]

He looked mostly at pornography, she said, and officials banned him from the library only after he exposed himself to a 16-year-old library assistant.

Surprise, surprise.
As long as you can keep from "exposing" yourself to children, the librarians love people to come into their free libraries and help themselves to the internet pornography.

[Antoninus]

The idea that ANYONE considers the viewing of internet pornography to be an appropriate use of library computers is simply mind-boggling to me.

Yet that, apparently, is the ALA's position, is it not? "No, no, no, we can't forbid a vagrant from his allotted 1/2 hour of free porn at the library--that would be censorship."

We are becoming a nation of politically correct sissy-boys.