Censorship On The Internet

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to access porn. Now it is not just for adults. Children are accessing the obscene materials. This brings rise to issues of how to protect them from problems that can arise. The materials they view, could influence children. They could also be subjected to cybersex in a chat room full of people that could be three times their age. Worst of all pedophilias could influence children to meet with them outside of the computer. The government and the United States citizens must now figure out how to protect our children from the effects of cyberporn, and yet at the same time protect the adults from loosing their constitutional rights.
In response to the need to protect children the Communications Decency Act was passed. The first part of the CDA states if you display “indecent” or “patently offensive” information on the Internet, “in a manner available to a person under eighteen years of age,” you are a criminal and have broken the law. The second part of the CDA reads you have a ...

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part of the House of Representatives Contract with the American people saying that they need to protect children from the exposure to pornography over the Internet (Rafter A3). The Supreme court is having a lot of conflict with these new laws so until they can be passed parents will need to use the technology that is already available to censor the net. Children can get into a lot of trouble and bad situations while visiting a cyberporn site. The worst possible situation is if they were becoming a victim of a pedophile while in a cybersex chat room. After visiting some of the sites, “...pedophiles will use the materials to arouse themselves and then seek out children...Whether it’s ...

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