In some cases, like the Hustler book with its
subtitle, the content is clear and people make make a
choice whether to download it or not. And if comments
about language, violence and sex are put into the
comments section by the submitter and into the long
synopsis by the validator, people can make their own
choice. I guess that for legal reasons bookshare
doesn't want children under the age of 18 to download
books their parents might not want them to see, but
then maybe it should be the parents who download the
books for the kids and not the kids themselves until
they are 18.
G.Cindy
--- liz halperin <lizzersagain@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Carrie: it was my understanding that any book a
person could check out of a
public library should not have Adult Content slapped
on it: each of us as
individuals have our own moral perspectives and for
us to decide what is fit
or unfit for teens is censorship, pure and clear. So
I am following the
libraries. About un-limiting books, early on and
pre-Gustavo, anything that
was gay or lesbian was put under adult content.
Those should be put back in
the general collection. Things like letters to
Hustler (I've seen a few like
that, where the purchaser must be over 18) should be
Adult Content bec they
are sold that way. Otherwise, we need to be cautious
about becoming
"Fahrenheit 451" clones. Parents can put their own
limits in. Personally, I
wouldn't want any child of mine being able to
download some serious
right-wing, neo-fascist, anti-Semitic homophobic
books. But they are on
Bookshare and I defend their right to be there. It
would be up to me, the
parent, to deal with, not Bookshare.
Just my personal thoughts.
Liz in Portland
Liz Halperin
Portland, OR
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