The Internet is a wonderful place of entertainment and education, but like all places used by millions of people, it has some murky corners people would prefer children not to explore. In the physical world, society as a whole wants to protect children, but there ar

Being one of millions of surfers throughout the Internet, I see that fundamental civil liberties are as important in cyberspace as they are in traditional contexts. Cyberspace defined in Webster's Tenth Edition dictionary is the on-line worlds of networks. The Internet has started to change the way of the world during this decade. More homes, companies, and schools are getting hooked online with the Internet during the past few years. This change has started to become the new way of life present and future. The Internet system is so advanced it is ahead of our time. Some of this might sound a little far fetched, but you have to be worried about these types of issues. Strange things can happen and when the word censorship is being thrown around people should be aware. What will be next once the internet is censored; newspapers, television, radio, and demonstrations. Who knows that's why censorship needs to stopped in it's tracks with regard to the internet.

As far as online censorship there are some things that are of questionable or just plain bad taste that some people feel should be illegal. Usually the biggest issue of course is porn on the net. People want porn to be outlawed on the net. This might solve the problem and it might not. The problem is that there is an amazing amount of it out there and it would take constant watch to stop it from being put on the net. There are also other ways of blocking this content from reaching children. Parents have access to many different types of blocking programs, but for that to work the parents have to take care to learn about the internet and computers in general. Currently most children know more about computers than their parents do, but the older generation can change that by just going past their fear and learning.

e no social or physical constraints to Internet surfing. With the passage of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, the American Congress has prepared to turn the Internet from one of the greatest resources of cultural, social, and scientific information into the online equivalent of a children's reading room. By invoking the overboard and vague term "indecent" as the standard by which electronic communication should be censored, Congress has insured that information providers seeking to avoid criminal prosecution will close the gates on anything but the most tame information and discussions. The Internet Censorship Bill of 1995, also known as the Exon/Coats Communications Decency Act, would make it a criminal offense to make available to children anything that is indecent, or to send anything indecent with "intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass"1. The goal of this bill is to try to make all public discourse on the Internet suitable for young children. The Communications Decency Act calls for two years of jail time for anyone caught using "indecent" language over the net; as if reading pr

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