The detail Michals does not stress is that she entered this room voluntary. There was no force, no one holding a gun to her head, telling her to enter the room. She entered on her on will, knowing that what she might encounter in the room could be offensive, degrading, and violent, mainly because the title of the room was, after all, Rape Fantasy . If Michals did not want to be subjected to this type of discussion, she should not have entered the room. The Internet provides users with choices, and has certain mechanisms that allows users to block messages and images that offend them.
Users choose which chat rooms they enter, and which chat rooms they stay away from.
By restricting online chat rooms, Internet providers are taking away the user s right to choose, and their right to partake in activities that, while lewd and vulgar to others, they enjoy. Patti Britton, Ph.D., a clinical sexologist and a spokeswoman for Feminists for Free Expression comments on the issue at hand, what we suppress, expresses. If we keep our fantasies in darkness, they grow stronger. So maybe we ll find that through the Internet, we re Gestalting out the demons that keep us from having healthy relationships. This point is immensely significant in the counter to censorship on the Internet chat rooms.