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ELIAS-Fallbrook and all his money when the ADL and Ihe Southern Poverty Law Center orchestrated the Oregon judgment against jiim., Deprived of the funds previously needed to recruit prospective followers* Metzger now has ‘annew venue of almost unlimited •p'fotnise.The emergence of this new hate network conies at the same .time pornographic sites are proliferating on the Internet. With ;web sites carrying names as •provocative as “sex.gangbang”.'and “sex.inccst” and ■^‘sex.pcdophilia,” there’s a ^strong movement in Congressand elsewhere to censor cyberspace.This is no simple issue. It’s easy to argue against censorship in any form. But what then protects latchkey kids who routinely surf the web from landing on a site with graphic sex or one with virulent hale propaganda? By definition, most children don't yet have the knowledge it takes to debunk and thus disregard the claims contained in sites like Raven's.The combination of Internet pornography and hate now presents the most complicated censorship vs. free expression dilemma in this nation’s history.. continued from A«6Keeping potentially destructive material out of the hands of children is relatively simple when the material comes in the form of books, magazines and late-night cable television. But it’s not so easy when children and adults both use the same computers for Internet access and objectionable material is on semi-permanent display.Thomas D. Elias, a self-syndicated columnist based in Santa Monica, is coauthor of the new book “The Simpson Trial in black and White. ” His e-mail address is tdeliasdPaol.com
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Placerville Mountain Democrat
Placerville, California, US
Fri, Apr 26, 1996
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