et is a unique forum in at least one regard: while other forms of communication such as magazines or videos must be physically brought into a hostile jurisdiction, allowing you to choose whether to do business there, the content of your adult website can be viewed by anyone anywhere with a computer and Internet access. What this means for adult site webmasters is that it doesn't matter where you, your pictures, or server are located - you risk prosecution if a prosecutor anywhere views your adult website or home page and believes that the content is obscene.” Perhaps that in this respect, the internet does deserve legislation is regards to obscenity. For example, is it fair that a man in Maine, who has followed to the best of his ability, the laws in that state in regards to obscenity, is prosecuted for displaying what a man in Florida deems as obscene, where the state laws regarding this issue are much more severe? In this day and age, people rely on the technology world to provide an instant means of communication, the consequences of which are increasingly being examined. Numerous people throughout history have been quoted as saying that children are our most precious resource, and this fact is not any less true today. This country has a duty to protect these children in order to foster their development as the leaders of tomorrow. One must then examine the world that these youngster live in, where the internet is more and more becoming an integral part of daily life. In this respect, the masses must determine if these youngsters are being exposed to obscene material, and how the world must go about regulating this sort of content on the internet. James Exon, Senator and contributing author of The Communications Decency Act of 1995, wrote that putting in place “some basic guidelines on the information superhighway,” would be neccesary in order to “ make this exciting new highway as safe as possible ...
