Internet Usage

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"The Communications Decency Act is an amendment which
prevents the information superhighway from becoming a
computer "red light district." On June 14, 1995, by a vote
of 84-16, the United States Senate passed the amendment. It
is now being brought through the House of Representatives.1
The Internet is owned and operated by the government,
which gives them the obligation to restrict the materials
available through it. Though it appears to have sprung up
overnight, the inspiration of free-spirited hackers, it in
fact was born in Defense Department Cold War projects of the
1950s.2 The United States Government owns the Internet and
has the responsibility to determine who uses it and how it
is used.
The government must control what information is
accessible from its agencies.

This material is not lawfully available through
the mail or over the telephone, there is no valid
reason these perverts should be allowed unimpeded
on the Internet. Since our initiative, the
industry has commendably advanced some blocking
devices, but they are not a substitute for
well-reasoned law.4
Because the Internet has become one of the biggest sources
of information in this world, legislative safeguards are
imperative.
The government gives citizens the privilege of using
the Internet, but it has never given them the right to use
it.

They seem to rationalize that the framers of the
constitution planned & plotted at great length to
make certain that above all else, the profiteering
pornographer, the pervert and the pedophile must
be free to practice their pursuits in the presence
of children on a taxpayer created and subsidized
computer network.3
People like this are the ones in the wrong. Taxpayer's
dollars are being spent bringing obscene text and graphics
into the homes of people all over the world."

Computer, Internet, Privacy

INTERNET REGULATION: POLICING CYBERSPACE

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