[bookshare-discuss] Re: Adult Content Issue ... Again!
- From: Natalia Sulca <youngbeautyqueen@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 21:52:04 -0400
How? What do they have to do?
Nati
> From: roberttweedy@xxxxxxx
> To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Adult Content Issue ... Again!
> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 19:56:21 -0500
>
> Nati your parents can give permission.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Natalia Sulca"
> To:
> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 4:40 PM
> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Adult Content Issue ... Again!
>
>
>
> First Off. I think that it is a parent’s job to monitor what a child reads
> and to determine the maturity level of their child. They can decide weather
> the child can deal with adult content or not. Second. I am personally under
> 18, and have not yet found myself blocked from anything, but if I do I know
> I will be the first one really frustrated smile, seeing as most of the books
> I read are indeed adult content. I am all over the place when it comes to
> books. My parents are well aware of what kind of books I read. Sometimes
> they ask me for recommendations too! I have one question though. Is there
> any way we who are under 18 can get adult content unblocked? Is there
> something my parents will have to sign and send in?
> Happy Reading,
>
>
>
> Nati
>
> Now Reading Imortal In death
>> Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:02:35 -0700
>> From: ldspeaker17@xxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Re: Adult Content Issue ... Again!
>> To: bookshare-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> I have started to read several books that should have
>> been adult content because of sex that was very
>> descriptive. Another book that I validated I made a
>> comment that there was some sexual content (making
>> out, petting, etc) but not extreme and it was labeled
>> adult content. I think there needs to be a set
>> guideline on what constitutes adult content that
>> validators stick to. Like descriptive sex scenes,
>> tons of cussing, or graphic violence. Then in the
>> comments section the validator says why it was labeled
>> as adult content.
>>
>> -Christamae
>> --- Darrell Shandrow
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Hello Kelby,
>>>
>>> Though anything can be improved, I believe the
>>> "adult" label definitely
>>> needs to remain in place. Libraries take reasonable
>>> actions to protect
>>> children from content that is clearly inappropriate
>>> to their viewing in
>>> accordance with community standards, and Bookshare
>>> should certainly be no
>>> different in that regard with respect to children
>>> with print disabilities.
>>> :-)
>>>
>>>
>>> ----- Original Message -----
>>> From: "kelby carlson"
>>> To:
>>> Sent: Friday, March 21, 2008 5:14 AM
>>> Subject: [bookshare-discuss] Adult Content Issue ...
>>> Again!
>>>
>>>
>>> Okay, so it's happened again and once more left me
>>> extremely
>>> frustrated. A book that was just submitted "Witch
>>> Hunt: History
>>> of a Persecution" has been categorized as having
>>> "adult content".
>>> The witch hunts are a part of history that interest
>>> me, and I've
>>> been looking for some good books on them. But
>>> no-enI can't have
>>> this one no matter how good it might ,be because
>>> someone decided
>>> to tag it with the lable "adult content". Doesn't
>>> say what kind
>>> of adult content; whether its explicitsex, hate
>>> speegh graphic
>>> violence, or what have you. I would like to be able
>>> to determine
>>> for myself if a book contains adult content. But I
>>> can't unless
>>> I read it. Really, I honestly think this adult
>>> content label
>>> just needs to be dropped. It's almost kept me from
>>> reading a
>>> couple of really good books that got mislabeled.
>>>
>>> Okay, rant is done.
>>>
>>> Kelby
>>>
>>> Doomed Dragon
>>>
>>> It is quite easy for me to think of a God of love
>>> mainly because
>>> I grew up in a family where love was central and
>>> where lovely
>>> relationships were ever present. It is quite easy
>>> for me to
>>> think of the universe as basically friendly mainly
>>> because of my
>>> uplifting hereditary and environmental
>>> circumstances. It is
>>> quite easy for me to lean more toward optimism than
>>> pessimism
>>> about human nature mainly because of my childhood
>>> experiences.
>>> It is impossible to get at the roots of one's
>>> religious attitudes
>>> without taking in account the psychological and
>>> historical
>>> factors that play upon the individual.
>>> --Martin Luther King, Jr.
>>> If the people who started wars didn't make them
>>> sacred, who
>>> would be foolish enough to fight?
>>>
>>> --Rhett Butler
>>>
>>>
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