A huge market for sending and receiving pornography would be eliminated, and this would be a positive step towards creating a more sensitive and caring society. Unfortunately the technological realities of the internet makes censorship like this impossible. Since there is no one main hub of the internet, it is impossible to censor material as it comes from different countries with different laws towards information. A popular web page called CandyLand receives over half a million hits per week. It is run by the "CandyMan" as he calls himself as he does not want to divulge his identity. He was recently interviewed in The Net magazine. His web page has topics like "Getting In" which deals with the art and science of lockpicking. "Cons and Scams" details how to scam free stuff in stores, counterfeit money, rip off change machines and decode scrambled pay TV signals. "Drugs!" tells you how to grow psychedelic mushrooms, cook marijuana and get high off household items."Bombs! All About Those Things That Go Boom!" gives explicit instructions on making bombs using dry ice, bleach, match heads and more. He was asked what would bring CandyLand down, and if he could find a way to still get his message out. This was his response: "I am unable to foresee any situations or circumstances that would totally bring CandyLand down. Governmental censorship would most likely be an unenforceable joke. If censorship did pose a serious threat, then one would only need to upload a compressed copy of the content to a World Wide Web site within another country and open shop over there where the domestic laws of the USA would be null and void." His views are shared by hundreds of people in his situation in cyberspace. The U.S. government can only limit the content of computers in the U.S. if that, it can never control the content of computers outside the U.S. border. Since the internet is a worldwide network, computers from the U.S. are always linked to countries...
