be censored. Censoring the Net will only eliminate one single medium for minors to find irrelevant material. Government censorship is not the solution to the problem, and alternatives measures that have same effects as censorship can be practiced. While people do not have the right to restrict the Internet as a whole they do have the right to restrict information that is brought into their homes. Another crucial Internet crime is the theft of credit card numbers. Companies do business on the Net, and credit card numbers are stored on their servers; everyone with the necessary computer knowledge could hack in and obtain such databases for illegal purposes. Regardless of what types of software or safeguards are used to protect the children of the Information age, there will be ways around them. This necessitates the education of the children to deal with reality. Censorship is less important issue than good parenting. Raising well-disciplined and intelligent children isn’t the government's responsibility; it’s ours as parents. The foremost solution to the problem is for parents to provide moral guidance for their children. At the same time they are providing moral guidance for their children, Americans also need short-term technical solution. Intelligent censoring software and proxy servers can let parents disallow their children access to certain sites. In this way, parents can keep their children from the offensive materials on the Net. Computer porn, after all is a subject that stirs strong passions. So does the question whether free speech on the Internet should be sharply watched and controlled, as some Senators and members of Congress have proposed.Congress, in their pursuit of regulations, seems to have overlooked the fact that the majority of the adult material on the Internet comes from overseas. There is no clear boundary between information held in the U.S. and information stored in other countries. Data held in fo...
