Internet Censorship
The Children’s Online Protections Act defined “material harmful to minors” as material “appealing to purient interests under current community standards; as depicting or describing sex acts, or a lewd exhibition of genitals or a woman’s breasts; and as lacking ‘serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value for minors.’ “(Thomas). Does this mean that it is fair for the government to decide which web sites are “harmful” and which are not? Whose community standards …
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