ratingsystem for each web-page, the user then would be allowed to set the ratings ofthe pages allowed to their children.32 Other protective programs are alsoavailable such as The Internet Filter, which sends e-mail to the parents if achild enters a sex site.33 Cyber Patrol is time sensitive and allows restrainton certain times of use and total time online can be set by parents not wantingtheir kids be on the Internet all day instead of doing their homework, or notallowing them to be on after 9pm.34 SurfWatch comes with a list of sitescontaining sexual material that may not be changed. With CyberSitter, parentscan add to the menu to unwanted sites but not remove any.35 SurfWatch deniesaccess to sites such as Hustler automatically, it also restrains newsgroupswith words like "porno", "xxx", or "sex" in their topic.36 MicrosystemsSoftware's CyberPatrol program filters 12 content subjects such as sex,violence, and hate speech, then parents can add sites to a "CyberNet" list.37Indecent material is protected by the First Amendment, much of the materialsprinted in America including articles from Cosmopolitan magazine or JamesJoyce's Ulysses could be called indecent. Many civil-rights groups wereinvolved in calling the bill unconstitutional and prevents the citizen's rightsto free speech and privacy. If the U.S. succeeds in censoring the Internet,they will be in a position to mediate much more then just porn. Anything theywished could be controlled such as private conversations to each other.Porn, sex, smut isn't only found on the Internet, it can be found in books,magazines, films, television, music video, newspapers and many other places.People can walk into a corner video store and walk out with a pornographicvideo at only $4 a night. A team at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh,Pennsylvania, conducted an extremely detailed study of online porn.38 Some oftheir findings resulted in their conclusion in which the trading of sex...
