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Homeless Men Taking Advantage of Library Computers to View Some Porn
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Librarians in Laguna Beach are facing an awkward problem as homeless men have taken to gathering 'round public computers to watch adult-themed clips.
KTLA reports that the problem is growing (no dirty pun intended), and that on Saturday, eight men were found huddled over a Laguna Beach Public Library monitor to view a porn site. One was arrested for trying to masturbate.
A similar quandary facing New York libraries earlier this year resulted in Fox News spilling some ink to reiterate that if libraries take federal funding, they can only block sites that contain illegal obscene content and child pornography.
KTLA talked to a local dad/lawyer Jason Farhadian, who didn't appear to want to accept that rule of law. "They don't have porn magazines in the library," he said, "So if they can prohibit that, why can't they apply it to the websites?"
But until that as-yet-nonexistent case makes its way to the Supreme Court, librarians of Laguna, it looks like you're just going to have to avert your eyes.
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