Virtually Obscene

ISBN: 9780786428014

出版社: McFarland & Co Inc Pub

出版年: 2006-9

页数: 180

定价: $ 39.55

装帧: Pap

内容简介

Free porn. The phrase conjures images of search engine scams, computer viruses and spam emails. It also hints at an important debate?not over cost-free porn, per se, but over a regulation-free internet. This book examines the phenomenon of internet pornography, demonstrating how that debate is an important case study in the wider argument over internet regulation. Chapters objectively uncover the flaws of the most common arguments for and against regulation, and examine 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. The author offers a final analysis that regulation of sexually explicit materials is ultimately futile, and that the utility of an unregulated internet outweighs arguments against regulated sexually explicit materials.