an make informed decisions regarding access of Internet material, and the programming of intelligent software will be much easier: just by recognizing a small number of terms of classification. As a matter of fact, the classification of material has already been done on the Net for a period of time. Most Internet materials are well classified, and people will have an idea of what they are going to see beforehand. For instance, the articles in a particular Usenet newsgroup can be accurately predicted by the name of the group. For example, soc.culture.hongkong.entertainment contains discussion of the entertainment industry of Hong Kong; alt.binaries.sex.pictures contains encoded binary files of dirty pictures. Internet users know what they are approaching beforehand, and minors know that they are not supposed to browse those alt.sex.* newsgroups. The combination of the installation of censoring software and the classification of material is a much better solution than government censorship. Hentoff mentions that "flexibility of interactive media...enables parents to control what content their kids have access to, and leaves the flow of information free for those adults who want it" (Hentoff 1). This prevents unwanted material from reaching children and allows adults to continue enjoying their Internet freedom. The problem of the Net is that it is easy for minors to obtain inappropriate materials. The American government came up with a proposal to censor the Net, but as proved earlier, the "Censor the Net" approach is both technically and politically impossible. The foremost solution to the problem is for parents to provide moral guidance for their children. At the same time they are providing moral guidance for their children, Americans also need short term technical solution. Intelligent censoring software and proxy servers can let parents disallow their children access to certain sites. In this way, parents can keep their children from ...
