rries the chance of twoyears in prison and a $250,000 fine which is a good reason to restrict much ofthe flow.10The Internet is extremely massive, filled with usenet newsgroups, web pages,IRC channels, ftp sites, gopher sites and much more. The Internet is the lastand largest frontier of uncensored speech, anything from friendly chat to childporn to bestiality goes on. Pictures of anything that can be imagined are mostlikely available to the searcher. Some estimate that over 30 million peopleare on the Internet. On IRC(Internet-Relay-Chat) a live time conversation canbe held along with trading files from illegal computer game trading calledwarez to illegal picture trading goes on. 'Cybersex' is also a occupance thathappens more in live chat areas then others. MUDs or Multi-User-Dungeons, livechat like IRC was first started for Role Playing uses like online Dungeons andDragons, now among the MUD servers there are sexual MUDs for people interestedin S&M along with other fetishes. Usenet newsgroups account for 11.5% of totalInternet traffic and is a major distribution of smut pictures.11 The WWW alsoknown as the World Wide Web is today's largest portion of the Internet as wellas the fastest growing with well over 12 million pages accessible. Despite itsgargantuan proportions, it still remains fairly clean from hardcore smutcomparative to its size. BBSs seem to be the major uproar of censorship,although BBSs are NOT part of the Internet, many of their pictures found inthem later become available to users via someone uploading them.12 ElectronicBulletin-Board Systems(BBSs) require a user to dial that computer directlythought the phone lines resulting in long distance charges and often monthlyaccess fees.In late December of 1995, a prosecutor in Munich struck a devastating blow toCompuserve and the larger picture of freedom of expression.13 This prosecutorwas able to prevent the flow of information for 4 million people in 140countr...
