Bruce Watson

About the author: Bruce Watson is the president of Enough Is Enough, a nonpartisan group that seeks to make the Internet safer for children and families.

The ease with which pornography can be found on the Internet shows why filtering software should be installed in public libraries and schools. The Children's Internet Protection Act (CIPA), which requires that schools and libraries that use federal funds to pay for Internet access spend part of those funds on Internet filters, is an appropriate vehicle for ensuring that children are not bombarded with obscene images when they use the Internet. Opponents of filtering software spread false information about the effectiveness of such programs, ignoring the fact that almost all Americans believe that pornography should be filtered out of public computers. While parents remain...