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This document presents witness testimony and supplemental materials from a Congressional hearing called to address concerns about the Internet becoming a forum through which minors can be exposed to pornographic or otherwise offensive material. It features opening statements by Congressman Steven H. Schiff, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Basic Research, Congresswoman Constance A. Morella, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Technology, as well as Congressmen Pete Geren and Curt Weldon. Testimony is included from two panels of witnesses. The first includes: (1) Anthony M. Rutkowski, Executive Director of the Internet Society; (2) Ann Duvall, President of Surf-Watch Software, Inc.; and (3) Steven Heaton, General Counsel and Secretary of Compuserve; all of whom offer background information on the nature and structure of the Internet and an introduction to screening software and other technologies that can assist parents in restricting access to obscene material on the Internet. The second panel includes: (1) Mike Geraghty; (2) Kevin Manson; and (3) Lee Hollander; who discuss the law enforcement perspective--the extent to which police and courts can restrict the activities of the purveyors of cyberporn, problematic issues in attempting legal regulation of the dissemination of information, and outlets for cyberporn-related grievances. (BEW)
This document presents witness testimony and supplemental materials from a Congressional hearing called to address concerns about the Internet becoming a forum through which minors can be exposed to pornographic or otherwise offensive material. It features opening statements by Congressman Steven H. Schiff, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Basic Research, Congresswoman Constance A. Morella, chairman of the House Subcommittee on Technology, as well as Congressmen Pete Geren and Curt Weldon. Testimony is included from two panels of witnesses. The first includes: (1) Anthony M. Rutkowski, Executive Director of the Internet Society; (2) Ann Duvall, President of Surf-Watch Software, Inc.; and (3) Steven Heaton, General Counsel and Secretary of Compuserve; all of whom offer background information on the nature and structure of the Internet and an introduction to screening software and other technologies that can assist parents in restricting access to obscene material on the Internet. The second panel includes: (1) Mike Geraghty; (2) Kevin Manson; and (3) Lee Hollander; who discuss the law enforcement perspective--the extent to which police and courts can restrict the activities of the purveyors of cyberporn, problematic issues in attempting legal regulation of the dissemination of information, and outlets for cyberporn-related grievances. (BEW)
Excerpt from Cyberporn; Protecting Our Children From the Back Alleys of the Internet: Joint Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Basic Research and the Subcommittee on Technology of the Committee on Science, U. S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session, July 26, 1995 A portion of the pornography available in digital form, however, is not on the Internet, but on private bulletin boards that require proof of age and charge fees for membership. This was a source of confusion in the recent debate about the amount of pornography on the Internet. Analysts and politicians supporting the restrictions on Internet pornography argue that, especially with the introduction of the World Wide Web, finding pornographic text and images is increasingly easier, and that children surfing the Net are likely to come across them, either intentionally or accidentally. Some of this material, they point out, would be considered obscene and therefore illegal in printed form. Those who oppose restrictions argue that, although some Internet pornography may be classified as obscene, much of the material is just as easily available in book stores, video rental stores, or even libraries. Civil libertarians raise First Amendment concerns about restrictions. In addition, some opponents of restrictions fear that any threat of liability will hurt the development of the Internet. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Jenkins looks at the first amendment and how it should be applied to child pornography on the internet.
A work that bridges media archaeology and visual culture studies argues that the Internet has emerged as a mass medium by linking control with freedom and democracy. How has the Internet, a medium that thrives on control, been accepted as a medium of freedom? Why is freedom increasingly indistinguishable from paranoid control? In Control and Freedom, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun explores the current political and technological coupling of freedom with control by tracing the emergence of the Internet as a mass medium. The parallel (and paranoid) myths of the Internet as total freedom/total control, she says, stem from our reduction of political problems into technological ones. Drawing on the theories of Gilles Deleuze and Michel Foucault and analyzing such phenomena as Webcams and face-recognition technology, Chun argues that the relationship between control and freedom in networked contact is experienced and negotiated through sexuality and race. She traces the desire for cyberspace to cyberpunk fiction and maps the transformation of public/private into open/closed. Analyzing "pornocracy," she contends that it was through cyberporn and the government's attempts to regulate it that the Internet became a marketplace of ideas and commodities. Chun describes the way Internet promoters conflated technological empowerment with racial empowerment and, through close examinations of William Gibson's Neuromancer and Mamoru Oshii's Ghost in the Shell, she analyzes the management of interactivity in narratives of cyberspace. The Internet's potential for democracy stems not from illusory promises of individual empowerment, Chun argues, but rather from the ways in which it exposes us to others (and to other machines) in ways we cannot control. Using fiber optic networks—light coursing through glass tubes—as metaphor and reality, Control and Freedom engages the rich philosophical tradition of light as a figure for knowledge, clarification, surveillance, and discipline, in order to argue that fiber-optic networks physically instantiate, and thus shatter, enlightenment.
Today, it is commonly acknowledged that sexual abuse of children is a grave and pervasive problem. Yet 20 years ago many experts believed that child molestation was a rare offense. This book traces shifting social responses to child molestation.
"Because of its focus on communications and new media, this volume in Ablex's Civic Discourse for the Third Millennium series may be used at colleges and universities worldwide. A wide range of curricula may adopt the text as supplementary reading for courses in political science, speech and rhetoric, public relations, sociology, communications, journalism, diplomacy, and government."--BOOK JACKET.