Pornography on the Internet

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Porn, its everywhere! Go to any major search engine and you are well on your way to viewing some of the finest cyber porn around. No age verification, no credit card required, all it takes is just a couple of clicks on the mouse. But wait a second, why is it so easy, was it always like this? Not really, as we have seen, the Internet and the pornography industry have come together to make quite an explosion that has brought many issues to the surface.

It's a scary fact to realize that 83.5% images available on the Internet are pornographical. And it is even more of a problem when the Internet's pornography is available to curious children that happen to bump onto them. One of the more drawing freatures of the young Internet was its freedom. Its "… a rare example of true, modern, functional anarchy… there are no official censors, no bosses, no board of directors, no stockholders." Its an open forum where anyone can say or post anything, and the only thing holding them back is their conscience.

In this paper I am going focus on some of the fundamental issues regarding porn on the net. Also, because there has been a lot of controversy over an adult web site called "thewetlands.com" I'm going to use it as case study throughout this paper. Lastly, I am going to conclude with some possible solutions that I think will contain this explosive issue while preserving individual liberty.

First of all, why is porn so bad? In trying to answer this question it will benefit us to look into the perspective of Catherine MacKinnon who has taken a strong public stance against pornography in our society. Because our government considers pornography as a form of speech, MacKinnon argues that our free speech amendment brings ...

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...tter education for parents as well as children a win-win situation all the way around. The topic of pornographic censorship will continue to be heavily debated as long as people have such strong views. Censorship will forever be in debate since it deals with the First Amendment rights so closely. If the issue is important to you as an individual, then take action, get involved and make a difference

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Works Cited Albert, Gidari. "Bringing the Law to the Internet", Time, January 1995

Caleshu, John "Flame On: The State of Nature and the First Internet War," (April 1996) pp. 28, 31

Diamond, Edwin. "Five Difficult Issues." Technology Review. October 1995: 24-33

Dworkin, A., and MacKinnon, C. A., Pornography and Civil Rights (1988)

Gates, Bill. "Support Freedom of Speech on the Internet."

Catherine MacKinnon -- "Only Words"

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