Anti-government Censorship On The Internet

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into an uproar. Thinking that young children could get uncensored porn pictures off the Internet created chaos among the politicians. the Time cover story looked very convincing for many Americans who are uneducated about the Internet access. It suggested there was a sincere problem with uncensored material on the Internet. According to Time article 917,410 sexually explicit pictures, descriptions, short stories and film clips were studied on an 18 month period. Along with porn there are more concerns on the Internet with images that cannot be found in the average magazine rack. Such images include photos of children, images of bondage, sadomasochism, urination, defecation, and sex with animals. The CDA Act of 1995 made it a crime for Internet providers and distributors to publish and distribute any indecent material over the Internet. Any person who violates this law shall be fined not more than $50,000, imprisoned not more than six months, or both. At first I felt the ...

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exists on seeing such sites as pornography. Web pages with sexual material on them are starting to have warning signs about the material inside the site.
Also all sights containing these sexually explicit material requires a fee or a proof of age before the user can surf the web. This is done by entering a credit card number. Such safeguards is a reason that the CDA's claims are unfounded.
Another huge factor against government censorship is that it would be next to impossible to stop. The Internet was brought about from the Clod War and is designed to continue communication after a nuclear attack. This means it was basically set up to be impossible to block. Also their is the ...

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