ACLU Steps Up Into Washington Porn Battle, Stirs Nest

The ACLU has sued Wenatchee libraries in Washington state to stop filtering porn on their computers.  This comes after last weeks controversy of a Seattle mother being all waaa waaa over a dude looking at porn in front of her kid while librarians stood back and did nothing but their jobs.  The ACLU has claims that it is unfair that Seattle porn lovers get their freak on in the library rather than the Wenatchee porn lovers, other than, you know, actual issues that matter in terms in civil rights that are going on in this country like internet piracy laws.

ACLU wants Wenatchee libraries to stop filtering public computers - Q13 FOX

The Tea Party and ACLU Join Together to Form Leaftron

Superior Court Judge Monica Marlow ordered a halt on the Shasta County Redding Library's policy that states groups handing out leaflets must stay in a special 66 square foot area outside the library after the library was sued separately by the American Civil Liberties Union of California and the North State Tea Party Alliance.

Damn, that was a long sentence.

Seems the library wanted the annoying people handing out political materials to stop annoying their patrons, wrote up a policy, and got sued for the policy by the annoying people and a normally clear-headed organization that is not the Tea Party.  The argument is all about free speech, which is great, but also about solicitation, which is arguably not great.  I am fine with people handing out leaflets and flyers and whatever else they want, but get the hell out of my face when I am looking for a book or want some peace and quiet with my laptop in the library.

Yes, free speech should reign at the library.  No, I should not have to have someone pushing the information in my face unless I ask a rather tenacious librarian for it.

Redding.com