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Seattle’s Lake City library has been fighting a particularly contentious fight lately, upholding patrons’ right to watch pornography on library computers. Well, not that specifically, but rather the right of patrons to access whatever content they like on the library’s unfiltered Internet content, LOLcats and porn alike. Naturally, there have been some complaints about the pornography, but things have been astoundingly civil so far.

It started when Julie Howe, at the library with her children, saw a library partron watching a little “hard-core pornography.” Howe asked him to at least move to a slightly more discreet location, but the patron refused and when Howe tried to get a librarian involved, the librarian refused as well.

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