From: Barbara Dozetos, Gay.com / PlanetOut.com Network Thursday, April 19, 2001 / 04:38 PM (All rights reserved)
The Florida legislature's resident homophobe is now arguing that unfiltered Internet access in public libraries creates "sexual deviants."
The Florida politician who delivered an impromptu speech on the sin of homosexuality to GLBT students last week launched an assault on libraries this week for not blocking patrons from accessing online sexual content from public computers.
Urging legislators a to pass a bill that would require public libraries in the state to install filtering software to block access to pornographic Web sites, Rep. Allen Trovillion (pictured) told fellow lawmakers that masturbation by library patrons was a serious problem, particularly in Broward County.
"I could tell you stories about people masturbating in libraries in Broward County," said the 74-year-old Republican in a meeting of the House Council for Smarter Government, according to the Sun-Sentinel. Democratic Rep. Ken Gottlieb interrupted to say he was unaware of any such problem.
In an interview later with the Sun-Sentinel, Trovillion said there was at least one child running a pornography business from a library computer in Broward County. "I'm not trying to criticize Broward County, but if you don't filter, you expose children to things that could make them sexual deviants in the future," he told the paper.
Many filtering programs automatically block sites with GLBT content. The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) recently filed a lawsuit seeking to overturn the federal Children's Internet Protection Act, which is similar to the bill being debated in the Florida legislature. The ACLU said the law unconstitutionally restricts freedom of speech and hinders people in accessing valuable information.
Broward County Administrator Roger Desjarlais told the Sun-Sentinel that Trovillion's claim was "one of the most ludicrous things I've heard in a long time." He said there was no masturbation problem in the county's libraries. While there is no filtering system installed there, Web access in the children's areas are limited to pre-approved sites. _______________________________________________________
Need I say more? And they call US the perverts? *ROTFLMAO!*
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"Rep. Allen Trovillion told fellow lawmakers that masturbation by library patrons was a serious problem."
Although I am not a great fan of smilies, I think this warrents one:
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------------------ You know, when Comedy Central asked us to do a Thanksgiving episode, the first thought that went through my mind was, "Boy, I'd like to have sex with Jennifer Aniston." -Trey Parker, co-creator of South Park
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Oh, man don't get me started on the Bess shit! I hate that thing with a passion, it blocks everything, I had to get all my graphics for my geography project at home cuz Bess blocked 74% of the entire web, it even blocked yahoo and altavista at our school. What kind of a f***ed up moron masturbates in a public library?? And how would he go about doing that, in our libraries you always have someone standing behind you, annoying you that your turn on the net is over. There is a 10min limit so there isn't a lot you can do, check hotmail, take a quick glance at messageboards and that's it.
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ME PLAYING WITH MY GIGANTIC FORCE FEED-BACK JOYSTICK AT DA LIBERIES????
UNPOSSIBLE!!!
me and a bunch of my friends did caught a "CHICK" checking porn in the university libery just couple of weeks ago, and we yell out, "Dude, she's checking out porn" out loud on purpose, and that was kinda funny.
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You know, this dude kind a' reminds me of Gul Dukat.
Not in a good way, however.
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Unfortunately, the library I work at restricts 'net access. Not w/ filters, or anything. But, there are rules that say the library has the right to decide what its computers are used for, and anyone accessing (unspecified) "inappropriate" material will be made to stop.
We have caught people looking at porn before. We've seen evidence that people were looking at porn, even though we didn't see them doing it. There was even one guy (currently banned for using the public terminals to send harrassing e-mails) who was apparently once caught showing something "inappropriate" (I wasn't told what it was) to some kid.
However, to my knowledge, no-one has ever been caught or even suspected of jacking off in the library. Especially not in the open. What goes on in the bathrooms, I don't care to imagine. But not out in plain view.
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It's happened here. Last year, some guy was caught roping his pony in one of the computer suites. I don't even want to know what the hell he was thinking, because it terrifies me to think that someone could be so blatantly stupid`that they'd actually try that sort of thing.
Anyway, there's no filters of any type here in college. You can play games, mpegs, video nasties, whatever until your heart implodes from the excitement!!
Good job I'm sitting down. That was all a bit much...ooh.
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Our computer stations are out in the open, so that's not likely to be a problem here.
Our regular terminals are unblocked, but the kids' ones have NetNanny on them. A lousy program, but better than the others because at least we can go in and alter the blocks ourselves... no need to have the thing go off because someone was looking for recipies that involve cooking chicken 'breasts.'
Libraries used to be reported as a prime gathering place for homosexuals, but that was back in the 1950's-60's.
Methinks the learned senator is suffering from the early stages of dementia.
You know, we'll only stop stuff like this when we manage to rid ourselves of the ludicrous concept that sex and the human body are inherently 'sinful.'
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Never thought I say this, but First of Two is right! Untill we get rid of the stupid social taboo on sexual intercourse we'll continue living in the stonage that we live in today.
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Personally, for me, I wouldn't be keen on my 5 year-old nephew watching two people "going at it".
In any case, I don't think that they're just afraid of kids seeing that. When they don't want kids viewing "objectionable material", I'm thinking more along the lines of child sex, bestiality, rape, and so on.
Of course, I'm not sure how the kids would stumble across that anyway, but I just don't think that the "blocking" is soley because people think that the human body is evil.
------------------ You know, when Comedy Central asked us to do a Thanksgiving episode, the first thought that went through my mind was, "Boy, I'd like to have sex with Jennifer Aniston." -Trey Parker, co-creator of South Park
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I've found that the best, and only really reliable, way for parents to keep their kids from seeing something the parent might not approve of on the internet, is for the parent to be using it with them.
------------------ The government that seems the most unwise, oft goodness to the people best supplies. That which is meddling, touching everything, will work but ill, and disappointment bring. - The Tao Te Ching
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