# Display of Explicit Websites in Your Local Library -aka- the Unlimited Access Debate

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/display-of-explicit-websites-in-your-local-library-aka-the-unlimited-access-debate/104637>\
**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [April 20, 2002, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/display-of-explicit-websites-in-your-local-library-aka-the-unlimited-access-debate/104637 "2002-04-20T04:08:40Z")\
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**Author:** ![even\_sven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dfb087/32.png) [@even\_sven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/even_sven)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2003, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/display-of-explicit-websites-in-your-local-library-aka-the-unlimited-access-debate/104637/41 "2003-03-27T01:13:08Z")

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> \*Originally posted by Ethilrist \*  
> [BSecond, requiring people (even librarians who are cataloguing videotapes) to look at boobies when they don’t want to as part of their job could be considered as contributing to a hostile work environment, and that’s kind of illegal and stuff, too. \*\*

Shielding computer moniters is the easiest thing on Earth to do. For less than five bucks you can buy a filter that makes it so that the screen is only visible from directly in front of the screen and a couple feet away. If that is too hard, simply putting computers at the right angles or using desks with dividers (like they often use on regular library desks) can do a decent job. A login/logout procedure (which really is good policy anyway) can eliminate objectionable stuff left up on screens.

My university has no anti-porn policy in labs (although in the libraries about half the computers are set aside for research only), and does all these things. There are rarely ever problems.

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