Virtually Obscene
Subtitle: The Case for an Uncensored Internet
Contributors: Nadine Strossen (Foreword)
Publisher: McFarland & Company; McFarland
Published: September 28, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780786428014
Subjects: Internet; Pornography & obscenity; Language Arts & Disciplines; General; Computer - Internet; Language; Library & Information Science; Internet - General; Social Aspects - General; Ethics & Moral Philosophy; Censorship; Intellectual freedom; Internet pornography; United States
Description: "Uncovers flaws of arguments for and against regulation; examines efforts to regulate the internet; community standards of obscenity as grounds for regulation; the free speech debate; and harm to children, women and the moral environment. An analysis that regulation of sexually explicit materials is futile, and that the utility of an unregulated internet outweighs arguments against regulated materials"--Provided by publisher.