Internet Regulation

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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 ...

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to obscenity and indecency
through the mail and telephones, applicable to the
Internet."7 To keep these kinds of pictures off home
computers, the government must control information on the
Internet, just as it controls obscenity through the mail or
on the phone.
Legislative regulations must be made to control
information on the Internet because the displaying or
distribution of obscene material is illegal.

The courts have generally held that obscenity is
illegal under all circumstances for all ages,
while "indecency" is generally allowable to
adults, but that laws protecting children from
this "lesser" form are acceptable. It's called
protecting those among us who are children from
the ...

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