by James Exon

About the author: James Exon is a Nebraska Democrat in the U.S. Senate and cosponsor of the Communications Decency Act of 1995, an amendment passed by the Senate and included in the Telecommunications Reform Bill. The act was one of several similar proposals to be considered by Congress in the bill’s final version.

When a youngster logs onto a computer terminal, he or she is welcomed into a vast new world of information that will revolutionize how we all learn and work in the future.

This worldwide web of computer connections represents an information explosion unprecedented in world history. But there are some dark side roads on the information superhighway that contain material that would be considered unacceptable by any reasonable standard.

My proposal lays down some basic guidelines on the information superhighway...