The Supreme court has somewhat defined obsenity in 1957 in the Supreme Court case of Roth v. U.S. the Supreme Court decided that obscenity was “outside the pr

Obscenities and pornography isn’t all of the harmful material on the Internet that children can access. There are sites on how to make a bomb, how to hi-jack a car, and how to use a gun, as well as almost anything and everything imaginable. This can lead to serious or deadly results. Rebecca Fairweather, a high school graduate of 1999, does not agree with this. In the Detroit News she wrote that “ Rather than trying to prevent these actions, adults must try to keep youth from feeling desperate enough to commit such acts.” She feels that instead of focusing on eliminating the negative, focus on promoting the positive- sports, music, art, writing, dance, community service, and math and science because, Fairweather says “as any parent can tell you, young people will find a way to get what they want no matter what obstacles adults put up against them.” (Fairweather)

The Internet should be censored, not by the government, but by the individual. If a parents feels the need to keep their child away from the dangers of the Internet, they can use a filtering program on their computer. Censoring the Internet for children is not as b

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