you, it is over 17 that people can watch porn in public, is that like it everywhere? no. ran randi, the supreme court found that it is completely appropriate for the library to monitor the content and for a public library to monitor what is available to patrons and that is why you don t see the porn magazines throughout the libraries, but what they have to do is to quite frankly put in a fi filter or policy that allows the porn sites to be filtered out, and if the paytron wants to see it, they can ask for the site, the filter to be disabled. if the librarian determines that the website is sort of okay or in line with the library s vision and the library s policy, then that patron can view the online porn. i have to tell you that when i put my legal hat on i thought that new york got it wrong by having this policy and when i take the hat off and put on the