Net Censorship

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vote and a 91-5 Senate vote.2 It seems now that the wide bill might not be what it cracked up to be, as it
stands now, anyone who might upload James Joyce’s Ulysses could be placed in jail for two years and have up to a $250,000
fine.3 Representatives of on-line services industries were concerned about the bill, and feared they could be held criminally
responsible for Internet conversations.4

"We face a unique disturbing and urgent circumstance, because it is children who are the computer experts in our nations
families," remarked a concerned Rep. Senator of India Dan Coats.5 Although in reality, censorship would do little to stop the
pornography problems. The bill is a nation legislation trying to control a international network, which is virtually impossible.
According to the First Amendment, Americans were granted to write anything they please, whether it’s indecent or not, several
series of judicial decisions also helped the freedom down the road.6

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live chat like IRC was first started for Role Playing uses like
online Dungeons and Dragons, now among the MUD servers there are sexual MUDs for people interested in S&M along with
other fetishes. Usenet newsgroups account for 11.5% of total Internet traffic and is a major distribution of smut pictures.11 The
WWW also known as the World Wide Web is today’s largest portion of the Internet as well as the fastest growing with well
over 12 million pages accessible. Despite its gargantuan proportions, it still remains fairly clean from hardcore smut comparative
to its size. BBSs seem to be the major uproar of censorship, although BBSs are NOT part of the Internet, many of their
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