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Free porn on demand isn't free speech issue

Linda Taaffe's opinion piece ("Library Internet filters would block free speech," Oct. 26) decrying porn filters at the public library misses the point entirely.

Free porn on demand at the taxpayer-supported public library is not a free speech issue. Viewing porn is not speech.

There is no constitutional right to a free public library, so how can there possibly be a constitutional right to free porn on demand at the public library?

Just because someone cannot afford a computer does not mean that the public must subsidize that person's desire to view porn.

What's next--taxpayer supported free tickets to porn movie theaters for those too poor or too cheap to pay for them?

John Michael O'Connor

Willow Glen