Maryam Kubasek

Maryam Kubasek is director of communications at the Cincinnati-based National Coalition for the Protection of Children & Families. In the following viewpoint, she argues that the constitutional protection of free speech does not apply to pornography on the Internet. Children have always been protected from pornography, Kubasek maintains, because pornography is violent and degrading. Therefore, she contends that laws should be enacted to stop pornographic materials from being transmitted through cyberspace.

As you read, consider the following questions:

1. What protective measures does Kubasek recommend for protecting children from Internet pornography?
2. According to the author, what types of pornography are available on the Internet?
3. In what other venues have children been denied access to pornography, according to Kubasek"

Would the folks out there who think it’s perfectly acceptable to hand a child a pornographic magazine...