The Vast Cyber-frontier Is Being Threatend With Censorship From The Government

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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

Nebraskan Democrat James Exon, put ...

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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 pictures found in
them ...

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