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- 51: The Communications Decency Act
- ... of the net. The CDA is mainly out to protect children. In the beginning, the anonymity of the Internet caused it to become a haven for the free trading of pornography. This is mainly what gives the Internet a bad name. There is also information on the Net that could be harmful to children. Information on how to make home-made ... has to know their real name. As the average age of the Internet user has started to drop, it has became apparent that something has to be done about the pornography and other inappropriate info on the net. On February 1, 1995, Senator Exon, a Democrat from Nebraska, and Senator Gorton, a Republican from Washington, introduced the first bill towards regulating ... 1995." During this time, Godwin submitted testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, debated Christian Coalition executive director Ralph Reed on Nightline, and headed the attack on the study of online pornography. The study of online porn became the foundation of "Time Magazine's" controversial July 3 cover story, "On a Screen Near You: Cyberporn." Time said the study proved that ...
- 52: Censorship of the Internet and the Tyranny of Our Government
- ... bulletin was posted, especially with the automatic dialing and encryption technology available. Thus even trying to censor the Internet as a whole would be only an exercise in futility. Although pornography and potentially destructive material exist on the Internet, not all potentially offensive material shows violent sex acts with children or instructs one how to make bombs. Many users transmit important ... some government officials, was in effect, a site, such as above, would never have been available and my most abundant source of information would have been gone. Hate literature and pornography do exist, but it is insignificant to the legitimate applications of the Internet. Banning of material that may be offensive to one, but may be quite valuable to another, deprives ... not bombarded with grotesque pictures and hate groups' paraphernalia. One has to deliberately go into such a site, and there exists software to protect children from such occurrences. Often times pornography sites will ask for a registration and a major credit card number. Forms are sent in the mail and logging onto a pornography site can be quite time consuming. ...
- 53: Propaganda in the Online Free Speech Campaign
- ... a term familiar to most people even if they are not exactly sure about what the Internet is. Along with the concept of the Internet, it is widely known that pornography and other adult related materials seem to be readily available on the Internet, and this seems to be a problem with most people. Indeed, it does not take long for ... that children will gain access to materials that should be reserved only for adults. Additionally, there is concern that the Internet is being used for illegal activities such as child pornography. In response to the concerns of many people, the government enacted the Communications Decency Act which attempts to curtail these problems by defining what speech is unacceptable online and setting guidelines for fines and prosecution of people or businesses found guilty of breaking this law. While the goal of keeping children from gaining access to pornography is a noble one that few would challenge, the problem is that the CDA has opened a can of worms for the computer world. Proponents of the CDA claim ...
- 54: Article -New York Times
- By: Cynthia Rhymes E-mail: CRhymes@hotmail.com The New York Times Hearings End in Online Pornography Case By PAMELA MENDELS PHILADELPHIA -- A federal online pornography law will either unconstitutionally chill free speech on a variety of commercial Web sites or spur the creation of sensible screens between children and sites that exist to sell pornography. Those were the opposing views expressed Wednesday during the final day of hearings in United States District Court here to decide whether the new law, the Child Online Protection ...
- 55: Computers and Society
- ... aren't easily answered. Being safe is a new craze today, protection from hackers and other people who will steal personal secrets and then rob someone blind, or protection from pornography or white supremacists or millions of other things on the internet. The recent communications bill that passed is supposed to ban pornography on the internet, but the effects aren't apparent. There are still many US “pages” with pornography that have consent pages warning the user of the pornography ahead. Even if the US citizens stopped posting pornography, other nations still can and the newsgroups are also international. ...
- 56: Internet Censorship Laws
- ... Supreme Court and taken down. The law was severely limiting our freedom of speech on the Internet. The reason for the most of the laws of that kind is the pornography on the net. I agree with the people who try to pass those laws in that the child pornography is not appropriate, or that kids should not have an access to the XXX sites. But those laws are not the solution. First of all they make many people angry ... country. Those servers are located all over the world and unless the government of Russian, Germany, Great Britain, South Africa, Zimbabwe, and all others pass those kind of lows the pornography won't be stopped. Also I don't believe that pornography does as much harm as most people think. There are still a lot of movies out there with ...
- 57: Nature Imagery in Adrienne Rich's "Twenty-One Love Poems"
- ... the marred and disturbing character of the human culture dominant in Manhattan. Her stroll in the metropolis with her lover compels her to take into account that "screens flicker / with pornography, with science-fiction vampires, / victimized hirelings bending to the lash." These fierce images foresee later remarks in the "Twenty-One Love Poems" on the violence intrinsic in a culture built by men, and including "pornography" and "vampires" on one line is done to correlate the "unnatural" image of Dracula with the portrayal of what Rich has called "compulsory heterosexuality," as it is often degraded in pornography. It is apparent that this association points toward the exhausting, hostile quality of male-female relationships and, more generally, of human intimacy in a metropolis covered in "rainsoaked garbage" ...
- 58: Censorship of the Internet and the Tyranny of Our Government
- ... bulletin was posted, especially with the automatic dialing and encryption technology available. Thus even trying to censor the Internet as a whole would be only an exercise in futility. Although pornography and potentially destructive material exist on the Internet, not all potentially offensive material shows violent sex acts with children or instructs one how to make bombs. Many users transmit important ... some government officials, was in effect, a site, such as above, would never have been available and my most abundant source of information would have been gone. Hate literature and pornography do exist, but it is insignificant to the legitimate applications of the Internet. Banning of material that may be offensive to one, but may be quite valuable to another, deprives ... not bombarded with grotesque pictures and hate groups' paraphernalia. One has to deliberately go into such a site, and there exists software to protect children from such occurrences. Often times pornography sites will ask for a registration and a major credit card number. Forms are sent in the mail and logging onto a pornography site can be quite time consuming. ...
- 59: Internet Regulation: Policing Cyberspace
- ... are breaking laws that have existed for years. Cyberpunks, those most popularly associated with the Internet, are members of a rebellious society that are polluting these networks with information containing pornography, racism, and other forms of explicit information. When they start rooting around for a crime, new cybercops are entering a pretty unfriendly environment. Cyberspace, especially the Internet, is full of ... vs. California, 413 U.S. at 24-25, the court announced its "Miller Test" and held, at 29, that its three part test constituted "concrete guidelines to isolate 'hard core' pornography from expression protected by the First Amendment.9 By laws previously set by the government, obscene pornography should not be accessible on the Internet. The government must police the Internet because people are breaking laws. "Right now, cyberspace is like a neighborhood without a police department." ...
- 60: Censorship
- ... wrong" or "bad". Clearly obscenity is not identical with evil. It only covers a single segment of it. But what is that segment? A look at the words "obscenity" and "pornography" suggests that it is a segment that didn't worry people very much till relatively recently. Though censorship was known in english law quite early on, it wasn't for ... sex" is what criminal law in Canada prohibits. This is how criminal law defines obscenity. But it is rather vague. It doesn't differentiate between "ordinary obscenity" and "hard-core pornography." The first denoting the ordinary run of "girlie magazines and the second denoting pictures , literature and so on that deal with rape, sadism, masochism, bestiality, necrophilia and other perversions. People tend to object far more to "hard-core pornography." Another distinction unfortunately overlooked by our criminal law is the distinction between isolated instances of obscenity and the products of vast commercial enterprise. There has been an increasing trend ...
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