ges, while "indecency" is generallyallowable to adults, but that laws protecting children from this "lesser" form areacceptable. It's called protecting those among us who are children from the vagrancies ofadults.8 The constitution of the United States has set regulations to determine what iscategorized as obscenity and what is not. In Miller vs. California, 413 U.S. at 24-25, thecourt announced its "Miller Test" and held, at 29, that its three part test constituted"concrete guidelines to isolate 'hard core' pornography from expression protected by theFirst Amendment.9 By laws previously set by the government, obscene pornographyshould not be accessible on the Internet. The government must police the Internet becausepeople are breaking laws. "Right now, cyberspace is like a neighborhood without a policedepartment."10 Currently anyone can put anything he wants on the Internet with nopenalties. "The Communications Decency Act gives law enforcement new tools toprosecute those who would use a computer to make the equivalent of obscene telephonecalls, to prosecute 'electronic stalkers' who terrorize their victims, to clamp down onelectronic distributors of obscene materials, and to enhance the chances of prosecution ofthose who would provide pornography to children via a computer." The government mustregulate the flow of information on the Internet because some of the commercial blockingdevices used to filter this information are insufficient. "Cybercops especially worry thatoutlaws are now able to use powerful cryptography to send and receive uncrackable secretcommunications and are also aided by anonymous re-mailers."11 By using features likethese it is impossible to use blocking devices to stop children from accessing thisinformation. Devices set up to detect specified strings of characters will not filter thosethat it cannot read. The government has to stop obscene materials from being transferredvia the Internet because it violates laws...
