Save The Internet

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acts (Beahm
295). Therefore, pornography and violence are correlated. It trivializes the
human beauty and converts it into commercialized slime (Beahm 295). Moreover,
the consumption of pornography can lead to a detrimental addiction and the
consumer can become a slave to it (Beahm 297). In short, pornography is a very
addictive drug; which has an equal or more potency to hard-core drugs like
heroin and cocaine. Can you imagine a ten year-old innocently surfing the
Internet and suddenly bumps into a pornographic site depicting explicit images
of naked women and becoming addicted to it? The damage is long-term and when the
time comes, we will have a nation of perverts. Galbraith says, "The U.S.
constitution does not forbid the protection of children from a pornographer's
freedom of speech. That must be inferred through the First Amendment." These are
our children and we have the right to protect them. The fact that pornography is
damaging mentally is further aggravated as the ...

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6 million times." (58) This shocking figure is further
agitated by the fact that pornography would be very harmful to the young
unsuspecting child who happens to stumble on it while roaming about cyberspace
(Kershaw). Remember, our children is our most important resource in the future;
we have to refrain them from negative influences so that they could be good
citizens of tomorrow.
"Regulating the Internet might be the only way to protect Internet users
including our children from accessing obscene pages." (Montoya) Singapore has
taken an encouraging step to establish a "neighborhood police post" on the
Internet to monitor and receive complaints of criminal activity-including ...

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