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When TIME published a cover story on Internet pornography three weeks ago, a certain amount of controversy was to be expected. Computer porn, after all, is a subject that stirs strong passions. So does the question of whether free speech on the Internet should be sharply curtailed, as some Senators and Congressmen have proposed. But the "flame war" that ensued on the computer networks when the story was published soon gave way to a full-blown and highly political conflagration...
...study, was contributing to a mood of popular hysteria, sparked by the Christian Coalition and other radical-right groups, that might lead to a crackdown. It would be a shame, however, if the damaging flaws in Rimm's study obscured the larger and more important debate about hard-core porn on the Internet...
...will always have sexual predators among us. Although mechanisms to block online porn are certainly worthwhile, the secret to protecting children is to educate them. All youngsters are less vulnerable to danger if they are taught to recognize it and are given strategies to deal with it. This fall the National Center for Assault Prevention, which has been a leader in abuse-prevention education, will make available to schools and libraries a kit to be used in teaching children and parents how to have a safe journey on the information highway. This technology will be with us for the rest...
...have been shocked at what's on the Internet, but no more so than I was when I saw the drawings accompanying your story on cyberporn. They reflect the same fascination with sick sex that net porn feeds. I can keep my kids from logging on. Must I now also keep them from reading Time? PENNIE THURMAN Naperville, Illinois...
...potential for misleading children, but you completely miss the easy solution: ask the program writers of mail-handling systems why they have not put in place simple means of parental control. Maintaining a list of newsgroups unacceptable for children would make a major difference in access to available porn. A law requiring those who design Internet mail systems to implement secure parental control would allow parents and teachers fuller control of what children have access to, and would satisfy everyone except those who object to such control. PETER SCARGILL Newcastle, England...