Here's a news item from the Associated Press:  BOISE, Idaho (AP) — State lawmakers have introduced a bill that would require Idaho's public libraries to block offensive content on computers. Rep. Mack Shirley, R-Rexburg, says lawmakers have already adopted similar safeguards for Internet use in public schools. Shirley now wants to extend those protections to computers used at taxpayer-funded libraries, blocking Internet access to obscene materials such as child pornography and any other content deemed harmful to minors. Libraries would implement a separate Internet use policy for adults and could disable the filtering software for "legitimate" research, under the bill introduced Thursday. Shirley says 25 other states have adopted Internet use legislation since the federal Children's Internet Protection Act was passed a decade ago. Under the Idaho legislation, library boards would draft rules at the local level to comply with the proposed state law.