The thing that caught my attention within the lecture number 28 was the CDA, and how it was passed to regulate the internet like television and radio broadcasting. This is the outrageous; did they really think that it would be possible to regulate the internet just like television? Marty Rem a young man that published 16 articles, as well as “The Pornographers Handbook” before he was a graduate student, did some research about the amount of porn on the internet. This study, as well as time magazine directly caused the creation of the CDA, and this problem.
Now I know that Marty Rem was probably a smart man, but at the time that he published this article, he was still an undergrad student. I don’t understand why the editor of Time Magazine would take the work from an undergrad, and make such a big deal of it. I think they should have done a little more research about the field, and looked at some other research done by an expert. The person who wrote this article in Time caused something to happen that never should have.
The other thing that should have never happened was the creation of the CDA. With the other study, done before the decision to create the CDA was made. The findings from that study were that the traffic from online porn contributed to only 1% of the total online traffic on the internet. This isn’t even close to the numbers on amount of shoppers, researchers, and students. The only reason they make a big deal about it is because it is porn, and this study proves that the porn should not be regulated within the same constraints as television or radio.
