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...study, titled Marketing Pornography on the Information Superhighway, is significant not only for what it tells us about what's happening on the computer networks but also for what it tells us about ourselves. Pornography's appeal is surprisingly elusive. It plays as much on fear, anxiety, curiosity and taboo as on genuine eroticism. The Carnegie Mellon study, drawing on elaborate computer records of online activity, was able to measure for the first time what people actually download, rather than what they say they want to see. "We now know what the consumers of computer pornography really look...
This is the flip side of Vice President Al Gore's vision of an information superhighway linking every school and library in the land. When the kids are plugged in, will they be exposed to the seamiest sides of human sexuality? Will they fall prey to child molesters hanging out in electronic chat rooms...
...change the system, we should not be deterred by false choices. The choice is not between free speech and the marketplace on the one hand, and governmental censorship and bureaucracy on the other. The choice is to serve the needs of children and use the opportunities presented by the superhighway in the digital age to enrich their lives. If we turn away from that choice, the consequences of our inaction will be even greater educational neglect, more craven and deceptive consumerism and inappropriate levels of sex and violence-a wasteland vaster than anyone can imagine, or would care...
Though the information superhighway may eventually dispense with many of the public-interest obligations that marked the age of broadcasting, our responsibility to protect and educate our children will never be among them. Even skeptics who believe the public interest is beyond definition know it lies in the hearts and minds of children. If as a nation we cannot figure out what the public interest means with respect to those who are too young to vote, who are barely literate, who are financially, emotionally and even physically dependent on adults, then we will never figure out what it means anywhere...
...Clinton Administration today proposedcreating a new federal agency to police the "information superhighway."The Wall Street Journal reports that the new federal entity would respond to hacker intrusions that have undermined faith in thesecurity of electronic information and transactions, particularly as financial, transportation and other systems become almost exclusively electronic. The proposal, from a governmentwide task force called the National Information Infrastructure Forum, would train officials to respond to security "emergencies" andpush for encryption standardsthat government and industry could share...