Preventing children from accessing provocative material can be achieved through other means. There are more filtering options on the internet than for almost any other form of media. Most Internet service providers now give parents the ability to add parental controls and limit their children’s ability to access adult content. While some sites will still manage to get through, parents and teachers have more control over the Internet than over cable television or movies.

Some would argue that the internet is available at the public library and local schools and this inhibits parental control over what the children view. Conversely most schools and libraries hire private companies such as Net Nannie to control students’ access to the web. These companies have employees that spend there entire day searching for sites to block. If these limits are not adequate for the parents, the

Parents need to understand that preventing a child from viewing, hearing, or coming into contact with any obscene material is on the verge of impossible. With the availability of adult magazines, stories, and humor it is unrealistic to believe that you can prevent your child from having any contact whatsoever with adult content even discounting the Internet as a source. By watching the news, television shows, or movies it is easy to find sexual innuendos and adult themes.

Most people think that Internet censorship of pornography and bomb making is a good thing. They cannot understand why organizations like the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union fight these laws. While I am not as liberal as these organizations I do believe it is every Americans right to decide what he or she reads, watches, or listens to. It is illegal for the government to try to restrict anyone’s right to free speech. I believe in censorship, but I believe it is up to individual to censor for themselves. "Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but unlike charity, it should end there."(Clare Booth Luce)

If one decides to have children then it is their responsibility to raise

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