INTERNET CENSORSHIP

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Term Paper Title	INTERNET CENSORSHIP
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INTERNET CENSORSHIP

   Last October, congress passed and President Clinton signed into law a new "sequel" to the
unconstitutional Communications Decency Act. This new Internet censorship bill, the Child Online
Protection Act or COPA (a.k.a. "CDA II"), would establish criminal penalties for any commercial
distribution of material deemed "harmful to minors".  Although I feel that this law will probably be
overturned like CDA, it shows how determined some politicians are to ignore our constitutional rights to
free speech and impose their own views of what’s "indecent" and "harmful to minors" on others.

   I believe that the government should have no business imposing these unconstitutional laws. The
laws themselves are way to vague, many avocates of Internet censorship laws are ignorant of what the
Internet really is or how it works, laws like these wouldn’t work, and there are many alternatives to
government enforced laws to protect children that would be much less invasive.

   The bills for laws aimed at regulating the Internet for the sake of child safety are, in my opinion,
extremely vague and broadsided.  They give absolutely no definition of what should be considered
"obscene" or "harmful to minors."  Definitions annexed on to them are extremely broadsided and could not
only ban pornography but also things like information on AIDS and other sexually transmitted diseases,
birth control, breast cancer, certain forms of artwork, and many other things that should never be
considered "obscene."  However Internet censorship laws could potentially make it illegal to publish things
like this on the Internet, and in being so vague, there is plenty of room for abuse of laws like these.
Politicians could misuse these laws to ban things that they personally consider immoral or simply don’t
like even if they aren’t considered "offensive to minors" by most people, abridging our rights to free
speech even further.

   Aside from the vagueness of these proposed laws, they could prove impossible to enforce.  Many
people who push laws like thes...

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