America Must Censor Internet Pornography :: Pornography Censorship

Since their founding, reckoners and the Internet have become a tool that nearly every man, woman, and child in the World have been able to use. email has become one of the Worlds fastest growing ways of communication and the Internet has become one, if not the largest source of information for sale today. You can find however about everything you wanted to know about anything with the stroke of a few keys on the keyboard. However, along with these positive aspects of the Internet, there lies much negativity surrounding the mesh and its use. Access to teenage pornography, bestiality, brutal murder pictures, XXX stories, and other un-ethical ranks is extremely easy. In fact, the pornography industry has grown 63% since the Internet was first available for use.(Bishop 91) It is one of the leading industries on the Internet and has become quite a controversy in the United States. Censorship of such sites has done very diminished due to the fact that most p arnts feel that t hese sites are not accessed by their children. We have currently found no solution that has worked and many government officials check up on the problem only getting worse. Pornography on the Internet though should not be banned, but rather better controlled and censored due to its availability and graphic nature. Pornography on the Internet is available in different formats. These range from pictures and short animated movies, to sound files and stories. Most of this kind of pornographic theme is available through World Wide Web pages. The Internet also makes it possible to discuss sex, see live sex acts, and arrange sexual activities from computer screens. There are also sex related discussions on the Internet Relay Chat channels where users in small groups or in nonpublic channels exchange messages and files.(Akdenis, 1997) There are millions of different pornographic sites on the internet, so there is almost no way of regulating every site unless there was some type of a universal censorship required for every site. Nearly every one of these millions and millions of sites is accessed daily. Men, women, and children of every age and race are on the Internet looking at inappropriate sites every day. Over 2/3 of Americans who have access to the Internet have accessed pornographic or other un-ethical sites, and the numbers are only growing.