Part I: George W. Bush; Part II: Morality in Media

In the 1990s Congress passed several laws designed to protect children from being exposed to pornography on the Internet, only to have several of those laws overturned by the Supreme Court. The following two-part viewpoint makes the case that the national regulation of Internet pornography is both constitutional and desirable. Part I is taken from remarks by President George W. Bush at a gathering of law enforcement officials. Bush argues that the Internet is a powerful tool that has been abused by criminals seeking to harm children, and he calls for passage of new federal legislation against child pornography. Part II, taken from a news release by the organization Morality in Media, presents the results of a...