CENSOR'S SENSIBILITY

ARE WEB FILTERS VALUABLE WATCHDOGS OR JUST NEW ONLINE THOUGHT POLICE?

Seeking to protect fellow citizens from depravities ranging from TV violence to rap lyrics, from Uncle Tom's Cabin to Howard Stern, some Americans have always had a hard time restraining themselves from trying to circumvent the First Amendment. And the World Wide Web, with its infinite plenitude of pro-Satan home pages and SEXY NUDE BABES! sites, has more, um, free speech in need of protection than any medium in history. As lurid tales of online obscenity seep into America's consciousness, a variety of Internet sentinels have volunteered their services.

Or was that Internet censors? What one group claims as guardianship of...

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