How A Culture War Over Nonexistent Porn Made It All The Way To The Colorado Capitol

DENVER, CO - APRIL 15: Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales Branch Library April 15, 2015. (Photo by Andy Cross/The Denver Post) — DENVER, CO - APRIL 15: Rodolfo "Corky" Gonzales Branch Library April 15, 2015. (Photo by Andy Cross/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

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April 5, 2019 11:32 a.m.

When Lamar City Library Director Sue Lathrop checked the mail on a crisp September day in 2017, she was greeted by an unusual piece of correspondence: a letter from a group claiming that one of the library’s databases was spewing porn into children’s search results.

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