Mass Media | Internet Pornography Should Be Regulated

The Supreme Court decision on the Internet and pornography is analytically infuriating. Justice John Paul Stevens used as the principal argument for the majority opinion invalidating the congressional act the assertion that the Internet is going to do more good than harm. He went so far in this line of argument as to say that such harm as it does is unmeasured and perhaps impalpable—the old argument: Who ever got hurt by pornography? But to argue that more good than harm can come from the Internet is on the order of saying that more good than harm can come from drugs and therefore...

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