ally searching for the smut? Realize that I am not standing behind a podium of ethics,rather I am speaking from the perspective of the librarian. It is true that the information that is postedis relevant for its users but the organization of the matter is where we have completely failed! Aseventh grade student, who was researching for his Social Studies class, typed the following keywordinto one of the nets leading search engines: Asians. Soon, the screen was flooded with sitescontaining the same keyword but most of them were linked to various porn sites. There are web sitesin the thousands, specializing in occult fetishes of every kind, that one can imagine and then, somemore. Even if those sites are there legally, there should be a better form of organization that preventsusers from entering unintended web sites. As I have mentioned above, the question of ethics, or ones definition of what is right and wrongis a serious issue concerning the world wide web. Pornography is not the only controversial issue ofthe net. There are millions of sites propagating various religious dogma, ethical issues such as abortion,politics, and other touchy material. For example, Ron Harris caused a major eruption in the scenerecently, when he introduced his Human Egg-Auction-Site under ronsangels.com. Fertility experts,religious leaders etc. have been enraged by Mr. Harris claims and have accused him of every verdictraging from running a soft-core E-Bay to the Hitlerian crime of Eugenics. The site features the eggsof three models (there were eight initially but five dropped out due to negative publicity) who areauctioning off their eggs to Internet users. The site claims that beauty is a key component for survivaland claims that society will be made better by creating a utopia that has its focus on beauty. Ipersonally despise the site and if I were a parent, would not want my child to view such content. Suchmaterial, being open to th...
