American congress by offering two bills which designed to limit material on the internet “clean up” indecent material that are available in the internet .these bills were named the Communications Decency Act and Child online Protection Act .the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) didn’t accept it and they fought against this bill that stated : “whoever uses any interactive computer service to display in a manner available to a person under 18years of age, any comment, request, suggestion, proposal, image, or other communication that, in context, depicts or describes, in terms patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards, sexual or excretory activities or organs . . . shall be fined under Title 18, or be imprisoned no more than two years, or both.”
Clearly ,by this bill government considered “patently offensive”. of course ,what may be is offensive for one person may be not be for another .reasoning for the destruction of this bill was that government attempt “to censor cyberspace abridges the freedom of speech protected by the first amendment”
The most recent Internet censorship proposal was viewed in the Child Online Protection Act. In this act stated that “whoever knowingly . . . makes any communication for commercial purposes [by means of the World Wide Web] that is available to any minor and that includes any material that is harmful to minors shall be fined. . ., imprisoned. . . , or both.” (ACLU v. Reno) This act has been proposed and voted on, but a federal judge has blocked enforcement of the bill. Both of these bills are attempting to regulate private Internet organizations’ thoughts, expressions, and ideas. Many people thinking Internet censorship limiting individuals of their freedom to expression, and speech. Frederick Schauer states:
“the separation between the individual and government is central to the Free Speech Principle, and this feature is often lost when . . . we conflate social intolerance and governmental intolerance”
Government believes that it knows what is best for society.
However there is a more efficient way helps to control material on the internet, by use the some software programs which designed to filter inappropriate material ,parents can allow their children to use the internet and enjoy of this without any damage .and they don’t be worry about the viewing inappropriate images or movie and also ideas.
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