rch engines and simply type: sex. This will pull up a host of different sites where one can easily click on any of them and view pornography. What is happening is that the term pornography is which a broad word used in many different contexts and is difficult to determine what should be censored. Pornography is defined in Websters dictionary as pictures, film, or writing which deliberately arouse sexual excitement. Well one thing might sexually excite one person but not another person. So by this definition one can understand why there is a lot of room for discrepancy. Until there is a universal definition of what is meant by pornography there will continue to be heavy debate on what exactly needs to be done. If you cant define the problem you cannot solve it. The fact is that down-loadable pornographic images are in existence on the Internet and are extremely popular. "It doesn't take a magnifying glass to find hard-core pornography on the Internet ... and since many youngsters can navigate circles around their elders on the Net, some adults are in near panic" (Diamond 30). There is no doubt that any reasonable person would want to keep pornography out of the hands of children. The only question is by what means should our society take these steps. As the most participatory form of mass speech yet developed, the Internet deserves the highest protection from governmental intrusion. ( Judge Stewart Dalzell, United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 12 June 1996) How much of the Internet is freedom of speech and how much should be protected and what part should be defined as pornography and censored. This question is one that is at the heart of this debate. Most people believe that the government's intervention will do nothing to stop the problem. "It's virtually impossible to regulate the net because of the global nature of this communications device, It would mean monitoring every phone call into the Interne...
