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Download full textMcCarthy, Martha M. – Educational Horizons, 2004
Accompanying the explosive growth of the Internet have been concerns about protecting children from viewing pornographic and other harmful images through cyberspace. In the past few years, Congress has passed several acts to censor Internet sites available to children, but only the Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA) has received Supreme…
Descriptors: Libraries, Internet, Federal Legislation, Pornography
Peer reviewedMcMurdo, George – Journal of Information Science, 1997
Discusses the control of pornography on the Internet. Highlights include the Communications Decency Act (CDA); "Time" magazine's article on cyberporn and critiques of it; the unconstitutionality of the CDA under First Amendment protection of free speech; and non-legislative software solutions, including PICS (Platform for Internet…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Constitutional Law, Criticism, Federal Legislation
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Committee on the Judiciary. – 1995
This document presents witness testimony and supplemental materials from a Congressional hearing called to address pornography in cyberspace. It features opening statements by Senator Charles E. Grassley and Senator Patrick J. Leahy; and statements by Senators Strom Thurmond, Russell D. Feingold, Orrin G. Hatch, Chairman of the Senate Committee on…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Censorship, Child Welfare, Computer Software
