SD gov yanks teen site

It's not that surprising that politics entered into what a public library has in its Web site, but we've not seen this before: South Dakota's Republican governor, Mike Rounds, shut down the teen section of the state library's Web site, eSchoolNews reports. Though the State Library Board last spring rejected a request to remove a link to Planned Parenthood in the section, on July 9 the board reversed itself and agreed to remove the link. "Rounds opposes abortion; Planned Parenthood lobbies to keep abortion legal," according to eSchoolNews. Governor Rounds "said the removal of the Web links does not amount to censorship, because Internet users still can go directly to those organizations' sites. State government sites should not feature links to advocacy groups that are politically active, he said." ESchoolNews adds that most of the links in the section were related to teen culture, but there were links to Columbia University's Go Ask Alice!, "which provides answers to health concerns and some explicit sexual questions" and to " 'It's Your (Sex) Life,' which includes information on pregnancy, birth control, and sexually transmitted diseases."