CYBERSPACE AND PORNOGRAPHY


The Time Magazine Controversy

The Legislative Scoreboard

Industry and Public Response


THE TIME MAGAZINE CONTROVERSY

The score:

TIME Magazine CyberPorn Article
"http://www.pathfinder.com/time/magazine/domestic/1995/950703/950703.cover.html"
Rimm Study: "Marketing Pornography on the Information Superhighway"
"http://trfn.pgh.pa.us/guest/mrstudy.html"
Critique of the Rimm Study and Time Article
"http://www2000.ogsm.vanderbilt.edu/dewitt.cgi"
"http://www2000.ogsm.vanderbilt.edu/rimm.cgi"
PORN-O-RAMA - Blow-by-Blow of the Developing Controversy
"http://cyberwerks.com:70/0h/cyberwire/cwd/cwd.95.07.04.html "
The Cyberporn Debate Summary Page
"http://www2000.ogsm.vanderbilt.edu/cyberporn.debate.cgi"
HotWired's JournoPorn
"http://www.hotwired.com/special/pornscare/"
Ethics and the Carnegie Mellon "CyperPorn" Study
"http://www.soci.niu.edu/~jthomas/ethics.cmu "
The Plot Thickens - Another Side of Rimm
"http://cyberwerks.com:70/0h/cyberwire/cwd/cwd.95.07.04.html "


THE LEGISLATIVE SCOREBOARD

Communications Decency Act (Exon/Coats Amendment) Passed in Senate
" http://www.eff.org/pub/Alerts/s652_95_a1362_exon_coats.amend "
Analysis of the Communications Decency Act
"http://www.eff.org/pub/EFF/effect08.10.html#eff"
Leahy Amendment to House Bill Calling for Study of Online Pornogaphy Issue
" http://www.eff.org/pub/Alerts/s714_95.bill "
House Version of the Communication Decency Act Opposing Leahy Amendment
" http://www.eff.org/pub/Alerts/hr1004_95.bill "
Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich (R-Georgia) speaks out vigorously against the Communications Decency Act.
Reps. Chris Cox (R-California) and Ron Wyden (D-Oregon) craft bill to prevent content regulation.
Senator Dole Introduces Protection of Children from Computer Pornography Act to criminalize knowing online transmission of indecent materials to minors
" http://www.eff.org/pub/Alerts/dole_grassley_95_cdt.summary "

ADDITIONAL COMMENTARY

New Age Comstockery: Exon versus the Internet
"http://www.cais.com/main/pa232.html"
Sex, Cyberspace, and the First Amendment
"http://www.cais.com/main/pr-jf-sx.html"

INDUSTRY AND PUBLIC RESPONSE

Surfwatch Internet Access Screening Software
"http://www.surfwatch.com"
Microsoft, Netscape, and Progressive Network Team Up On Industry Effort to Enable Parents to Lock Out Inappropriate Content
"http://www.netscape.com/newsrel/pr/newsrelease29.html"
Discussion List on How to Allow Browser to Query Rating of Web Site
"ftp://ftp.junction.net/pub/rating-archive>"
CACI (Children Accessing Controversial Information) Discussion Group
"spirit.aud.alcatel.com:8081/~droelke/caci"
"www.zen.org/~brendan/caci.html"

Netsurfer Focus: The Business Of and On the Internet - 12 July, 1995
Copyright 1995 - S. M. Lieu - All rights reserved.