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Hardcore library porn may spark Big Brother ban

    * Christine Kellett
    * July 6, 2009
    * Source:
http://www.watoday.com.au/queensland/hardcore-library-porn-may-spark-big-brother-ban-20090706-d9lx.html

A Sunshine Coast council may consider a Big Brother-style monitoring
system for internet users at public libraries after an elderly man was
spotted watching hardcore pornography on a library computer.

Buderim mother Alison Sheldon complained to the Sunshine Coast
Regional Council after witnessing the incident at Maroochydoore
library last month, but said she was "fobbed off" by senior council
staff who told her internet filtering was not possible.

However, Councillor Anna Grosskreutz said the excuse was rubbish and
the council would now look at a number of policy options to stop the
``grubby'' practice''

Among them, she said the council may consider a swipe card system for
computer users to track exactly what they were downloading at
ratepayers' expense.

"You absolutely can develop a software around it if you want to," Cr
Grosskreutz told ABC radio.

"In fact, councillors and council staff are prohibited from a number
of sites within our own computer system, so why wouldn't the same sort
of policy be applied to the library?"

Cr Grosskreutz said she was "shocked" by Ms Sheldon's complaint, which
involved young children possibly being exposed to the offensive
material, and would meet with the former librarian today to discuss
her complaint further.

"It is grubby behaviour," she said.

"These are places for families to go to.

"If you've got a small percentage who are going to ruin it for
everybody, let's get a policy in place (and) let's get rid of them.
They can pay $30 a month or whatever it is for another (internet)
provider and do what they like in their own home."

In March, Brisbane public library assistant David Harold Wegert, 55,
was sentenced to two year's probation after using a library computer
to scour the internet for child pornography.

And in December, a man was sentenced to two years jail for possessing
child abuse material he had obtained from the Maroochydore library
computers.

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