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Technology and Pornography

New telephone information technology has created commercial opportunities for business and has enhanced information services for consumers through innovations such as autodialed calls, fax machines, pay-per-call or audiotext (900-number) services, and caller identification services. The same technology also has created new ways to commit telemarketing fraud and decreased individual privacy through the disclosure of telephone numbers, and the compilation of credit, buying, and other personal information in databases. In addition, it has created a new way to sell pornography to people who might otherwise not have access to it. It is this latter 900-number usage that has caused great controversy.

The debate over the value of pornographic expression has wide implications. Proponents of the arts defend pornography as a means of expression that gives rise to an alternative vision of the world, far removed from the mainstream notions of morality and sexual propriety. Feminist groups attack pornography with empirical evidence that the consumption of some sexually explicit materials leads to the degradation of women, which sometimes explodes into acts of sexual violence. Other critics assert that pornography is not a form of speech at all, but a sexual aid that does not concern the first amendment. Recently, three presidential commissions have conducted investigations on the impact of pornography on society. The Supreme Court has struggled to create meaningful distinctions between obscene and sexually explicit expression. However, despite these efforts, this issue is still not resolved.

"Dial-a-porn" is the colloquial name for telephone services that provide sexually explicit recorded messages to callers. They originated after the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) ordered American Telephone and Telegraph to divest itself of its "enhanced services," such as dial-a-prayer and dial-a-joke, and permitted others to offer ...

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