Naughty by Nature

NAUGHTY BY NATURE?

The pornography business has grown rapidly since the 70's, with the introduction of the Super 8 mm projector. With the 80's came the video cassette, allowing for easy home viewing pleasure. The 90's saw the introduction of a new medium to distribute and display pornography, the internet. The internet itself has gone under intense scrutiny, as pornography has and still does. The debate over whether or not pornography should be censored continues to grow in intensity and frequency. Advocates feel censorship can make the internet a secure place for kids, as well as making an attempt to kill off (or at least maim) a multimillion dollar industry. Others feel that censorship of internet pornography threatens our most basic and fought over civil right, the right to free speech. So the question arises, should the internet, with its vast expanse of endless pornographic sites, be censored?

Congress and then President Bill Clinton certainly thought so.