Many, many factors must be considered in implementing a system on the internet or electronic commerce. Some factors may have beneficial effects, while others may only cause problems and increase costs. Like in any good business, however, management must weight the two against each other. Pornography on the Internet is easily accessible, even to young children. Responses for Censorship Children - Children are harmed by pornographic material.
Pornography is unethical and obscene.
Pornography is not free speech and therefore does not fall under the First Amendment Rights. Rating Systems- A rating system could be imposed like the one recently imposed on television programs. Parents must take a more active role in supervising the actions of their children. They should limit Internet time, supervise them, use filtering programs, or do whatever is necessary to limit what their children see, rather than blame others. It would cost a tremendous ammount of money to enforce censorship of the Web.