The deliberation about the role of ISPs monitoring children pornography is between Alan Davidson, associate director of the Center for Democracy and Technology, Michael Godwin, policy fellow of the Center Democracy and Technology, and Bruce Taylor, President and Chief Counsel at the National Law Center for children and families. Whereas Taylor holds that ISPs should penalize pornographers and block their sites, using filters to monitor the online traffic and their activities, Davidson and Godwin reply that even the smartest filtering technique would not be able to determine if the traffic is officially permitted or not. What is more, the National Law Center for children and families inculpates the Internet Service Providers for not taking the right preventative measure to overthrow this situation. I believe that ISPs shouldnÃÂt be held responsible for the expansion of Internet pornography. Being on ISPs side doesnÃÂt mean that people should allow children pornography, but the way that the National Law Center thinks to fight against pornographers, by monitoring peopleÃÂs virtual life, is an invasion of privacy.
In his article ÃÂThe invisible pornographersÃÂ, Bruce Taylor argues that ISPs arenÃÂt preventing the pornography on their websites. He sustains that ISPs should take some precautions to make browsing online more eligible even for minorÃÂs usage. He also criticizes ISPs for permitting access to the children in such improper web pages. He claims that ISPs must find a way out by using their ÃÂsearch and filtering technologiesÃÂ (Taylor, 2002, p.B5) to discover child pornographers and stalkers on their system and definitely forbid them. But, as Taylor states, ÃÂOne ISP refused to remove child porn from its own server even after police told them in writing where it wasÃÂ they didnÃÂt want to censor itÃÂ (Taylor, 2002, p.B5), and this makes us understand that even if ISPs get...
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