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Thursday, June 14, 2012
Friday, June 1, 2012
The costs of free internet
Here in the library, the university provides free internet for anyone to come and use it. The idea was actually not for anyone actually. It was for the students and professors. The rest of us staff and employees have work to do. But no one told the homeless and jobless this. So they think it is just for them.
Its weird to watch them show up in the mornings- when I am here on early shift- and queue for access to the reference rooms and other public PC areas. The students tolerate their intrusion with thin masks of shock, fear and disgust. They can afford to since there are labs just for them to use- you have to have a student I.D. to get into those areas. An additional plus is that those ares are- in fact- far away from reference.
The reference people try to act like it doesn't matter who uses the computers to surf the net- but because they have painted themselves into a corner with it, they are stuck.
So what is the problem with 20 to 30 homeless/unemployed and might as well be homeless people using these computers?
In a word.
Porn.
The homeless have discovered what the rest of us geeks have known for years. The best thing about the internet is free or almost free porn. (Only idiots pay for it). If someone know where or how to look, one can find tons and tons of free porn on the internet. The Homeless know this and are only to eager to share their knowledge. This group of homeless/jobless are almost to a man, men 20 to 30 something, mostly white, thin to moderately overweight and mostly white. They are largely unwashed and smell about 1 to 2 shades better than Cesspool.
Reference decided in their infinite wisdom (about a coke can full anyway) that their internet would not be censored or restricted just in case of a professor or student who needed to research some area that would trip across pornography.So the Homeless have a free ticket to endless porn surfing in the reference rooms during business hours.
Got to love a bunch of librarians protecting freedom of speech and their own access to porn.
Its weird to watch them show up in the mornings- when I am here on early shift- and queue for access to the reference rooms and other public PC areas. The students tolerate their intrusion with thin masks of shock, fear and disgust. They can afford to since there are labs just for them to use- you have to have a student I.D. to get into those areas. An additional plus is that those ares are- in fact- far away from reference.
The reference people try to act like it doesn't matter who uses the computers to surf the net- but because they have painted themselves into a corner with it, they are stuck.
So what is the problem with 20 to 30 homeless/unemployed and might as well be homeless people using these computers?
In a word.
Porn.
The homeless have discovered what the rest of us geeks have known for years. The best thing about the internet is free or almost free porn. (Only idiots pay for it). If someone know where or how to look, one can find tons and tons of free porn on the internet. The Homeless know this and are only to eager to share their knowledge. This group of homeless/jobless are almost to a man, men 20 to 30 something, mostly white, thin to moderately overweight and mostly white. They are largely unwashed and smell about 1 to 2 shades better than Cesspool.
Reference decided in their infinite wisdom (about a coke can full anyway) that their internet would not be censored or restricted just in case of a professor or student who needed to research some area that would trip across pornography.So the Homeless have a free ticket to endless porn surfing in the reference rooms during business hours.
Got to love a bunch of librarians protecting freedom of speech and their own access to porn.
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