New times bring new crimes. Computers and the Internet especially, are growing everyday. A personal computer makes home, school, and office life tremendously easier with its expandable loads of information and possibilities. People of all ages are finding ways to use their PC's for any job, hobby, research, and even fetish they take interest in. With the Internet becoming increasingly popular, government and parents are finding it harder to maintain control of the lives their children lead on the Internet. Obstructing children from a site or information often becomes impossible when children are most likely the most computer literate in the family. The Internet is such an unbelievable step towards the future of sharing, communicating, and educating of present generations that we need to make sure these children are not being corrupted by petty thoughts. Pornography, unidentified chat rooms, and explicit information create a question of whether the negatives outweigh the po!

Pornography on the Internet has been a problem that many feel is too easily stumbled upon. In the early years of America Online and other Servers pornography was somethin

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nfringing on those who really enjoy pornography. (Roub)

are just being reasonable" (O'Brien). Once again, America Online was there from the beginning to attract the lives of many children as it made chat rooms full and readily available. They made it possible to search people of similar interest and also to trade pictures easily over the web. These many options at first seemed to be a good experience for children turned into a haven of sinful thoughts. Another problem many people of all ages have had with chat rooms is that they easily become addictive. People unsure about their looks or social skills sometimes find that they can meet people easier if their profile is that of a mature more attractive .

makes it easier for a motivated youngster to access salacious material" (Levy and Breslau 146). It's not that pornography is something new for parents to have to deal with, but the difficulty of keeping it away from their children has taken an all time high. It used to be magazines and movies that parents would be able to confiscate and protect their children from misconception. Now, children have this unlimited source, don't need to be eighteen and are able to hide it much better places than under there mattress. The human body is not the worry that Americans feel will corrupt their children, but it is the X-rated homosexual, bestiality, and uncensored fetishes that comes along with internet pics. It is by peoples first amendment that they have the right to create a website and on it display anything of their choice but morals shouldn't play a part in these peoples advertising? The Communications Decency Act (CDA) was an amendment to the 1996 Telecommunications Bill tha!

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If too many regulations are incited the Internet, as a tool, will become nearly useless; and the Internet as a mass communication device and a place for freedom of mind and thoughts, will become non existent. All users, servers, and people who love Internet must regulate themselves, so as not to force government regulations that may stifle the best communication instrument in history. The government should rethink its approach to the censorship and its restrictions, allowing the Internet to continue to grow and mature on their own.

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