The Censorship of Pornography
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date published 09/05/2008
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SummaryRobert Marshall’s “Internet Filters Should Be Used to Reduce Access to Internet Pornography” addresses the controversial issues of pornography and Internet censorship simultaneously. Pornography is controversial because of the often graphic nature of the material; and its effect on people, while examined in numerous studies, cannot always be tangibly qualified. Internet censorship enters an uncharted grey area because while free speech should be protected, the Internet is an unsupervised, unregulated Mecca for material normally excluded from protection. As Marshall attacks public libraries and schools as places that should filter pornography because of the harm he claims it can inflict on minors, he makes recommendations for courses of action.
Table of Contents- Marshall's writing immediately loses credibility when 'pornography' is left undefined.
- Marshall makes an error when discussing what should and should not be allowed in a library.
- Marshall tries to appeal to people's feelings on the matter when talking about risks of sexual harassment and violence, inciting fear.
- Marshall does not seem concerned about the consequences of his writing in the sense that he doesn't fear public ridicule.
- The problem is that while some laws are helpful, most make these kinds of cases harder with vague.
- Ultimately, Marshall's presumptions about these rules don't work because his view is too simplistic.
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