The growth of the World Wide Web has provided enormous educational opportunities for students. However, it has also led to the proliferation of cyberporn that can be easily found by anyone—including children—who has Internet access. In recent years, Congress has attempted to protect children from being inadvertently exposed to pornography online.

One of the first efforts to regulate online pornography was the Communications Decency Act (CDA) of 1995. The act prohibited the display or transmission of obscene or indecent material over the Internet to minors, but exempted from prosecution those who had made a good-faith effort to prevent minors from viewing the objectionable material. However, the Supreme Court struck down the CDA in 1997, ruling that the terms of the law would “cover large amounts of non-pornographic material with serious educational or other value,” and that therefore the act...