"Filters are far from perfect," said the librarian, Karl Marcuson. "I'm not completely opposed to filters, but my position is that they should be voluntary. For example, a parent could come in and say, 'I want a filter for the computer my child is using.' That is what larger systems, like Multnomah County and Fort Vancouver, are doing."
I wouldn't be opposed to voluntary filtering on a case-by-case basis like that. But governmentally-mandated filtering? No way. And I'd feel the same even in the highly unlikely event that a filtering software came into existence that was FAR more accurate than what's on the market today.
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