Pornography and the Internet
Since the beginning of time, men and women have fantasized over naked bodies. Pornography has always been a part of life and yet it has never been so readily available as what it is now. Erotic stories, explicit pictures, XXX- rated films and modern day magazines, are all part of the stimulus material which is known as "pornography" or as it is legally put, "obscenity." While many agree that children need protection on the Internet, the nature of this protection is contested. Explosive issues are involved in the debate over Internet regulations, with arguments often framed as child safety versus censorship. Pornography on the Internet cannot be totally band and yet any user cannot access it as our society's ethics are against children looking at pornography. The vast majority of information on the Internet is entertaining, informative, and educational. Nevertheless, the "Net" can have a dark side. The Internet is seemingly unregulated at present. This means that unlike any other form of communications available today it is open to abuse and misuse in a myriad of ways. The unregulated flow of information that the Internet provides creates concerns with parents and politicians.
Part of the problem is that the few censorship laws that we have are not enforced. So why don't we enforce them? The answer to this question is found on the screen of every computer in the world. The Internet, or as one person put it, "The closest thing to true anarchy that has ever existed." How is one to censor the Internet when it is literally impossible? What is the use of placing fines for copying pornography when it is impossible to tell the age of the user? How can one even trace the user when there are twenty-five billion members and it is impossible to follow them all? How can we delete the pornography when a new batch arrives every day and it is impossible to stop it? One major point making censorship difficult is the fact that censorship laws have only recently been required. In England for instance, censorship laws have, for hundreds of years, concentrated on heretic materials, where as now, they are finding that the only offence censorship is needed to prevent, is pornography. The US wants to put strict censorship on all obscene material. However, the first amendment of their constitution states, "there shall be no law abridging the freedom of speech or press," and thus finding it difficult to "step around," the law. It is obvious that people are putting an effort in to censor the pornography. However, when it comes to censoring material which goes all over the world, a balance must be found between the censorship laws of all the countries that are linked into the net. Here a problem arises, because Denmark laws
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