The Internet and Sexual Content

But times have changed, and so have the problems teenagers can get into without even leaving home. Imagine that you are a parent, and you come home one afternoon and find your son or daughter a seeming slave to a computer screen. You might think they are doing their homework, or wasting time on the latest computer game. And they might be. But they might also be enthralled by images of raw sex that would make Hugh Hefner blush, up to and including sex with children, sex with animals, homosexual acts, and other acts you might have trouble imagining. You might think that is the worst that could happen, but you would be wrong. Your son or daughter might be in the wrong chat room, meeting a wide variety of perverts without knowing who they are, what age they might be, or what they really have in mind. We hear about more and more cases where young people are lured away by pedophiles using a computer.

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vernment prerogatives to control information and to prevent the spread of democracy in places like China, or to curtail ideas that might threaten the government in places like Germany. Another international issue is economic. One concern about the coming information age is that it will exacerbate the differences between the haves and have-nots so that those who can access information will have an advantage. This is a societal concern in the U.S. as well, but it is an international issue giving a new fear to those concerned about the division between developed and developing nations. One way to avoid the conflict, some government leaders reason, is to control the technology entirely. In such an atmosphere, it seems likely that some legal regime will be created to arbitrate disputes between countries over access to the Internet and over content restrictions that different governments may try to impose. The United Nations and other international bodies have developed agencies and systems for coping with disparities between the developed and developing worlds. Such agreements may not be completely effective, but they do assert that the international community has an interest and intends to take a role. This could be done with
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