mprimised when the offensive material was made available to the postal worker from their community. Even though this sort of thing may be legal in California or on the web, the Memphis community felt that this sort of thing was inappropriate. According to Harvard Law School Professor Laurence Tribe, even with the ruling in this case “The question of community standards hasn’t been adequately solved solved in any medium” (Quittner 56). The internet should not be censored. There are many other ways to solve the problem of inappropriate web sites on the internet and censorship is not the best one. Educating people on the uses and misuses of the internet is one of the best ways to filter the world wide web as well as others already mentioned. A small group of people can not be allowed to dictate to the rest of the world what they can and can not view or express on the internet. Works Cited Brown, Andrew. “The Limits of Freedom.” New Statesman. 12 February 1999. 48.Diamond, Edwin. “Five Difficult Issues.” Technology Review. October 1995. 24-33.Economist. “The Top Shelf: Internet Censorship.” The Economist. 18 May 1996. 84.Giradi, Albert. “Bringing the Law to the Internet.” Time. January 1995.Knight Ridder. “Policing the Internet: Can it be done without trampling individual rights?” Knight Ridder/Tribune News Serivce. February 12, 1996. 212. Knight Ridder. “Time to stop push to Censor Cyberspace.” Knight Ridder/Tribune News Serivce. December 14, 1995. 214. Lewis, Peter. “Quixote’s Network.” Home Office Computing. May 1996. 114.Lloyd, Steve. “Privacy and Human Rights.” (Manchester University Press, 1968).Nellen, Peter. “Internet Censorship is both a Menace and a Nuisance.” Technology and Learning. November 1998. 53.Quittner, Joshua. “Free Speech...
