at people love communicating over the Internet so much by making it illegal for users to remain anonymous while interacting over the net. All forms of discrimination are present when the Internet is regulated and censored. The issue that struck up this whole conflict, family values and how to protect our children, is being re-evaluated by the courts. Justices of the Supreme Court side with the words of Bruce Enniss in the decision against censorship, “...it will be up to the parents, not the government, to keep kids from accessing smut (Bray C7).” Why must everyone suffer because parents do not want to do their job? The courts are giving the rights to the families to decide for themselves what is inappropriate for the children by striking down government regulation on the grounds that there are plenty of self censoring devices already on the market (Quittner 74). It is the responsibility of the parent to either censor the materials themselves, or teach them about what they are viewing to bring them up to the maturity level of the Internet. If parents are that concerned about the materials that their children have access to, then they should chaperone their children while on the Internet (Levy 24). We should help our children learn how to deal with the information on the Internet and then allow them to expose themselves to it already having previous education. Kids need a way to discover their selves as sexual people. One would think that with all of the diseases out there that a parent would rather their child experiment with sex over the Internet instead of learning the hard way with other kids. People do not get pregnant or contract the AIDS virus by having cyber sex. Also viewing pornography is a way of letting children and teenagers explore their sexuality with out embarrassment. If kids go into the real world with more exposure to sex, when thrown into a relationship they will be more knowledgeable, than curious. A kid ...
