The First Amendment: Sex, Laws, And Cyberspace

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Term Paper Title	The First Amendment: Sex, Laws, And Cyberspace
# of Words	1243
# of Pages (250 words per page double spaced)	4.97

The First Amendment: Sex, Laws, and Cyberspace

The First Amendment: Sex, Laws, and Cyberspace

     A Michigan college student posts sadistic fantasy about a classmate to
an Internet newsgroup and is charged with the threat to injure.  A postal
inspector in Memphis, Tennessee downloads a pornographic image off the Internet
and the California couple who posted it is arrested for violating Tennessee's
obscenity laws.  A programmer's encryption software is duplicated by someone
else and sent overseas via the Internet; the programmer is charged with illegal
export of munitions.  The three defendants in these cases felt that the First
Amendment protected them, but it was not the case.
     Sex, Laws, and Cyberspace is precise in its opinion on the First
Amendment and defends every case presented within the book.  Sex, Laws, and
Cyberspace addresses the legal issues and ethical debates surrounding the
worldwide growth of the Internet.  The same qualities that make these networks
invaluable--low cost worldwide reach, lack of censorship, interactivity, virtual
anonymity, and the ability to carry huge amounts of data, text, images, and
sounds--also makes them dangerous.  The pressure on the government to regulate
the Internet is tremendous, and the implications of their judicial and
legislative decisions will be far-reaching.  Sex, Laws, and Cyberspace examines
these battles and includes interviews with key players in both pro- and anti-
regulation camps.  The authors offer a spirited defense of the freedoms now
under fire, and suggest ways to monitor the “net” without stifling it.
     As an example the reader must look at is Jake Baker who liked to write
savage, pornographic snuff stories and post them to the Internet.  Always
written in the first person and tinged with an eerie realism, his tales were
simple, explicit, and gruesome.

"She's shaking with terror as Jerry and I circle her.  She says in a little,
terrified voice, 'Why are you doing this...I've never hurt you...p-please stop!'
I pause in front of her.  Jerry smiles at her terror.  He laughs at her pitful
pleas.  I say, 'Shut the _uckup, stupid whore!' and hit the side of her head,
hard.  She collapses on the ground, crying, curling up into a little ball.
Alright.  Let's have some fun" (64)!

        They proceed to tie the girl's hair to a ceiling fan and tear into her
as she dangles and spins.  Baker's hero, Jerry, then rapes and mutilates her.
For the denouement, they pour gasoline on her and say good-bye wi...

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