dealing with interstate commerce. It is not a validargument that "consenting adults" should be allowed to use the computer BBS and"Internet" systems to receive whatever they want. If the materials are obscene, the law canforbid the use of means and facilities of interstate commerce and common carriers to shipor disseminate the obscenity.12 When supplies and information are passed over state ornational boundaries, they are subject to the laws governing interstate and intrastatecommerce. When information is passed between two computers, it is subjected to thesame standards. The government having the power to regulate the information being puton the Internet is a proper extension of its powers. With an information based system suchas the Internet there is bound to be material that is not appropriate for minors to see. Inpassing of an amendment like the Communications Decency Act, the government wouldbe given the power to regulate that material. ...
