barrassed conversations about accurateas well as fantasy images of sex," said Carlin Meyer, a professor at New YorkLaw School.27 "It is clearly a violation of free speech and it's a violationof the rights of adults to communicate with each other," House speaker NewtGingrich shared.28In a Time/CNN poll conducted by Yakelovich Partners, 1000 people were involvedand 42% were for FCC-like control over sexual content on the computer networks,but 48% were against it. Towns supports the effort which Reps. Christopher Cox(R-Calif) and Ron Wyden(D-Ore) are working for. Cox and Wyden encouragedevelopment of smart programs such as SurfWatch, which restricts access tofiles at home. The Cox-Wyden proposal would make individuals responsible forcensorship, this would prohibit the governments interaction. Based on a polltakes in Black Enterprises 32% of those in the poll think the a new Internetgoverning body should control online services while another 32% say the usersshould followed by 16% saying a private enterprise should, and 15% saying noneshould, then lastly 6% believe the government is the right system for thejob.29 The MIT media Lab's Webhound project allows World Wide Web users toassign a number which rates each Web page seen. Webhound can then pointsomeone toward Web pages of their own interests. The Home Net project whichstarted February and goes until June 1997, gave computers to 50Pittsburgh families and monitors their use. Out of 157 people surveyed, lessthen 20% viewed anything sexually oriented more the twice.30 "Places thatprovide erotica on the Internet are wild about the idea of voluntary ratings,they don't want to sell to kids," Nathaniel Borenstein the designer of Kid Codestated.31 The government itself is the largest buyer of pornograp! hicmagazines in the form of sales to military bases and also requires sexeducation on children in public schools.A new development being worked on now is Kid Code. This would allow a ...
