Show Parents Demand Online Protection For Children By Jake Nelson Feature Editor Parents are demanding laws that will place an electronic brown wrapper over pornographic images on the inter This week a federal judge in Philadelphia is expected to rule on whether the government can enforce The Child Online Protection Act This law will help keep pornography away from the USA's 16 million users who are under the age of 17 If passed this law will censor net inter-net pornography forcing Web sites to collect credit card numbers or some form of adult ID The law makes it a crime to knowingly communicate with a minor and sell any online material that is harmful to minors Penalties include fines up to a day for each violation and six months in prison The law would also make it illegal for companies to place ad banners which contain pornographic images Karen Stewart an attorney with the Department of Justice said Our society has determined that it is in inthe inthe inthe the publics public's interest The law is meant to block from minors substance substance substance sub sub- stance that is clearly pornographic material The public agrees with Stewart In a recent survey 57 majority of Americans said that they favor a law which would make it illegal for a computer network to carry pornographic pornographic porno porn graphic or adult material Pornography is just too easy to find on the inter is a afree afree free web page company but any error in typing and you end up at a pornography site One problem is amateur sites Web-page Web companies are getting faster at striking down amateurs amateur's before they get well known Most companies like and Tripod take sites down immediately immediately immediately immedi immedi- if there is any pornographic images posted speech Free-speech advocates are challenging challenging challenging chal chal- the law proclaiming it unconstitutional Ann Beeson of the American Civil Liberties Union says Web content is as diverse as human thought so it its it's no real surprise surprise surprise sur sur- prise it includes sex But parents still want to make the theNet theNet theNet Net safer place for children Rae Kim-Rae Coleman a mother of six believes that the Net is very educational educational educational edu edu- but theres there's way too much trash dont don't know how you honor the First Amendment but censor it for children Ratings Access codes The problem with the Constitution Constitution Constitution Con Con- is it couldn't fathom what were we're doing now |