Requiring Registration To Access Internet Pornography: Abridging Free Speech Or Safeguarding Children?
Kelly Loomis
Mr. Gamble
Gov 111
5 December 2005
Requiring Registration to Access Internet Pornography: Abridging Free Speech or Safeguarding Children?
Pornography is the internet's number one income generator. With such an abundance of pornography available, children have increased access to view it than in days before the internet. Most Americans are alarmed by this, with 73% of Americans who believe that "the government should do something about" children's access to pornography (Rourke 56). In addition, "94% of respondents agree it should be illegal for adults to use the Internet to make pornographic material available to children under the age of 18'" (Rourke 56). As a response to this, Congress introduced the Child Online Protection Act (COPA) of 1998, which would make it a crime for "commercial Web sites to post material harmful to minors' unless the site has made a good faith effort to screen out those under the age 17" (Rourke 57). COPA would require that......
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