Who said founding-fathers, dipshit?

Here, this should help.

Well, those parts of the US can remove the sticks from their asses.

When an actual minor is shown actual porn, then we can officially raise a stink. Until then? People need to STFU. :-)

Nearly every library I've ever visited, across five different US states, in rural and urban areas, has had a separate "Children's Area", with the "Young Adult" area right next to it.

You can have those as your "family-friendly zones".

Well, here's the thing. It's always important to remember that the United States was founded by a bunch of Puritans who had sticks shoved up their asses SO FAR that the rest of mainstream Europe was like "Seriously? Get the fuck out, go over there to that New World far-far-away from us. Yeah here's a boat, here's some food. Go. We'll be right behind you. Swear."

If he's displaying the porn in a manner where there are ACTUAL MINORS able to see it (not just theoretical ones who could someday be there, but weren't there that day) then you can absolutely go after him for the providing pornography to a minor charge, and nobody (including the Free-Speech-Librarian) is likely to stand in your way.

But until you show that one of those minors is ACTUALLY being harmed? It's perfectly legal for everyone who was able to see it, and so "no harm, no foul".

The prior-restraints on First Amendment speech are very narrowly crafted, and have to meet a HUGE Constitutional test in terms of legitimate "needs of the State" and there is no "need of the State" when it comes to whether or not you happen to accidentally see some perfectly legal legs-in-the-air artistic-expression.

But of course you knew this already and were happily crafting a Straw Man to tear down. Well done.

Show me where your "right to not be offended" is enumerated in the Constitution please, because I just can't seem to find it in my copy.

The library isn't choosing what content to PROVIDE when they say someone has to be quiet and orderly.

By saying "you can view this but not that", or whatever, they're making a judgement call on the actual material they provide (albeit virtually) to their patrons, and to many librarians, that's the third-rail. You DON'T censor the material you provide to the patrons. You might have to prioritize some content over others when it comes time to buy them (what books are most in demand, etc., etc.), but if there's no cost difference involved to "serve porn versus not serve porn" to the patrons, then almost every librarian I know will choose to allow access to it, rather than be the censor.

And, to be honest, I don't care "what someone wants to see". You don't have some Constitutional right to not be offended.

They CAN choose to filter content, but they've taken the stance of NOT being the morality police to decide what content is "acceptable" and what content isn't. Which is admirable.

how's that been working out for you so far?

For an example of how one of the most well-established products in this space, in the Mac world, handles this request, I point you to the Gold Star of bad customer service responses... iBank, which has had an open thread since 2008 with hundreds of posts BEGGING for Direct Bill Pay, and various allusions to next version, next version, and then finally simply cop-outs.

http://forums.iggsoft.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=26479

And it was at this point that I gave up trying to migrate from Quicken For Mac (the last non-sucky version) to "something else mac" and just went BACK to windows (yeah, that's right, I converted FROM Mac TO Windows, because Intuit nerfed QfM, and none of their competitors actually wanted to do what it took to, y'know, compete).

Because, seriously, Quicken for Mac sucks moose-balls, most of the "Mac-Friendly" competition have glaring holes in their feature-sets (no online bill-pay from within the app, seriously?, etc.), and QfW just works, year after year, getting better and better.

It's not without its share of quirks, but it's the sole reason my Windows VM hangs around on my Mac these days.

man. I picked the wrong day to stop sniffing glue.

How can it be this late in the day and I still massive quantities of caffeine? /sigh.

apparently it ate my less-than symbol for less-than 2.6.32 in both those instances.