ooking up too much pornographic material. In fact, he was using the equivalent of eight weeks worth of work looking up pornography on the Internet (42). I agree with this course of action. If a person is losing work time and not getting his or her job done because he or she is looking up pornography, then there should be something done to stop that from occurring. If, however, there is no problem in their doing the work when this happens, I don’t see why it would be a problem. Everyday, a new pornographic site goes up. In fact, there is probably one that goes up every hour. What are we going to do to stop this type of thing from occurring? Well, there have been many laws that have tried to be passed to prevent this from occurring. The problem with these laws, however, is that they often counteract what is said in the First Amendment. For example, an article in Computerworld spoke of a new child protection law. The law was blocked by a federal judge in Pennsylvania who deemed it unconstitutional (12). Of course, more and more laws will come about that will try to do the same as this law. Will there ever truly be a law that can withhold the constitution and still be able to control some of what is on the Internet?As it is apparent now, censorship over the Internet is a raging battle between activists and the governments of the world. Filtering software is a plus in many school and public facilities, but does it really serve the purpose that it should? Some say yes while others feel it is too restricting. Should the Internet be a place where you can find freedom of speech to its fullest extent? Some say yes while others find the problems that can be associated by hate groups and other such social problems. How many content restrictions should the government put on us if any at all? Some say there should be no content restriction set up by the government while others feel it is a necessity. And what about pornography? Pornography has ...
