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Cyber Frontier

Statistics

  Counts

  Total Pages: 10.63
  Total Words: 2658
  Total Characters: 13766
  Number of Sentences: 286


  Averages

  Words per Sentences: 9.29
  Characters per Words: 5.18


  Readability

  Flesch Reading Ease: 66.01
  Fog Scale Level: 9.07
  Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level: 6.36  

Cyber Frontier

Thesis: The vast cyber-frontier is being threatend with censorship from the government.  Internet
censorship should be left up to the individual not the governments discretion.

I.  Censoring the Internet.
    A.  Clinton passes the C.D.A.
    B.  Our rights as Americans.
    C.  Exon's victory.
    D.  What's really online.
    E.  Strike to free expresson on Compuserve.
II. Where the Internet stands now.
    A.  Judges Panel.
    B.  Congress and other's opinions.
    C.  Background information.
    D.  Other opinions.
III. Solutions.
     A.  Family's responsibility.
     B.  Censorship Software.
     C.  Civil Rights.
     D.  Conclusion.

After threatening the Communications Decency Act with a vetos of the past versions, President Bill
Clinton signed the bill into law on February 8, 1996.1  Before hand, congress approved the largest change
of the nation's communications laws in 62 years. One of the largest controversial topics included in the
bill is the censorship of pornography, which now is a strenuously enforced crime of distributing
knowingly to children under 18.  The congress overwhelmingly passed the bill with a landslide 414-16
House vote and a 91-5 Senate vote.2  It seems now that the wide bill might not be what it cracked up to
be, as it stands now, anyone who might upload James Joyce's Ulysses could be placed in jail for two years
and have up to a $250,000 fine.3  Representatives of on-line services industries were concerned about the
bill, and feared they could be held criminally responsible for Internet conversations.4
"We face a unique disturbing and urgent circumstance, because it is children who are the computer experts
in our nations families," remarked a concerned Rep. Senator of India Dan Coats.5  Although in reality,
censorship would do little to stop the pornography problems.  The bill is a nation legislation trying to
control a international network, which is virtually impossible.  Accordi...

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