Internet Regulation: Policing Cyberspace

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The government
must control what information is accessible from its agencies.

This material is not lawfully available through the mail or over the
telephone, there is no valid reason these perverts should be allowed
unimpeded on the Internet. Since our initiative, the industry has
commendably advanced some blocking devices, but they are not a substitute
for well-reasoned law.4 Because the Internet has become one of the biggest
sources of information in this world, legislative safeguards are
imperative.

The government gives citizens the privilege of using the Internet, but it
has never given them the right to use it.

They seem to rationalize that the framers of the constitution planned &
plotted at great length to make certain that above all else, the
profiteering pornographer, the pervert and the pedophile must be free to
practice their pursuits in the presence of children on a taxpayer created
and subsidized computer network.3 People like this are the ones in the
wrong. ...

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courts
with regard to obscenity and indecency through the mail and telephones,
applicable to the Internet."7 To keep these kinds of pictures off home
computers, the government must control information on the Internet, just as
it controls obscenity through the mail or on the phone.

Legislative regulations must be made to control information on the Internet
because the displaying or distribution of obscene material is illegal.

The courts have generally held that obscenity is illegal under all
circumstances for all ages, while "indecency" is generally allowable to
adults, but that laws protecting children from this "lesser" form are
acceptable. It's called protecting those among us who ...

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