"That was the approach of John Belich, application support specialist at the St. Petersburg, Florida, public library system. After setting up the usual filters on porn and hate sites, Belich used Websense to block employees from using instant messaging or downloading MP3 files -- two activities that wasted time and sapped hard-drive space. The results were visible."
Setting up filters to block this content is not "usual" in public libraries. It is becoming more common as spineless and apolitical librarians cave into the use of censorware.
If the library system is blocking library personnel from unfiltered access to the Internet, they are not only interfering with their jobs, but they are engaged in unethical library practices.
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