Net, Anything Goes," Steven Levy and Karen Breslau both agree "that the Internet!
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!
t was passed by congress that outlawed the electronic circulation to minors of indecent materials. The problem with the bill, though, is that it went to the extreme. The indecent material did not only refer to nudity, but to any words that may be considered impure. Another problem with the act was that the consequences for violating the CDA were deemed too harsh. Other images found throughout the Internet are an unending supply of clumsy-altered images. This
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