h the Internet. “After the Court struck down the CDA, a variety of politicians and pressure groups began to suggest new strategies for "protecting minors" from sexuality and other perceived evils they might encounter online. One strategy has been to draft more narrowly tailored laws that, the authors hope, will withstand constitutional scrutiny. Another approach seeks to replace the constitutionally flawed CDA with classification schemes that would identify and block access to Internet venues believed to be offensive, violent, sexually explicit, or otherwise inappropriate for youth. Though distinct from a constitutional point of view, the two strategies share the same underlying assumption that children are always harmed by exposure to "indecent" material”(Heins 5). There are many opposing groups that are trying to stop these laws from being passed. Experts say that thee laws don’t seem to be going anywhere.Many people wonder what kids do spending so much time on the Internet. They could be researching, playing games, downloading songs, or talking to their friends. But whatever they are doing, parents should monitor if what they are doing is appropriate. "Kids have a unique perspective. We wanted to chart their changes especially since the Internet has become more a part of the mainstream," said Beauchamp. Of the 1,200 children surveyed, only forty six percent said their parents limited the amount of time they could spend on the Internet, and sixty two percent said parents were limiting access to some Web sites through filtering software or explicit instructions”(Mack 3).The extent of Internet use has gone so far with children that people have set up programs and associations that constitute pathological Internet use. Some of the signs contain, “feeling preoccupied with the Internet, feel a need to use the Internet longer to achieve satisfaction, have an inability to control your Internet use, f...
