Internet Dangers   Parent's  Rules ‘N Tools™   Youth Safety Guide   Safety Tools   Harms of Porn   Child Sexual Abuse   Report a Cybercrime   Big Cheese Sites   Donna Rice Hughes   Kids Online        Chapter 1        Chapter 2        Chapter 3        Chapter 4        Chapter 5        Chapter 6        Chapter 7        Chapter 8        Appendix A        Appendix B        Appendix C        Appendix D        Appendix E        Appendix F        Appendix G        Appendix H        Appendix I        Book Reviews        Letter from Author   Public Policy Updates   MouseClick Maze (home)		Kids Online: Protecting Your Children in Cyberspace Appendix I: ACLU Policy Number 4: Censorship Obscenity, Pornography, and Indecency This policy is included in its entirety in Appendix I in the book version. The following are excerpts from ACLU Policy 4, with emphasis added: (a) "The ACLU opposes any restraint on the right to create, publish or distribute materials to adults . . . on the basis of obscenity . . ." (b) "Laws which punish the distribution or exposure of such materials [i.e. including obscenity] to minors violate the First Amendment . . ." (d) "The ACLU believes that . . . all limitations of expression on the ground of obscenity . . . are unconstitutional." (g) "The ACLU opposes on First Amendment grounds laws that restrict the production and distribution of any . . . materials even when some of the producers of those materials are punishable under criminal law." [This describes child pornography.] The ACLU's official position on pornography reveals their underlying agenda with respect to filtering or blocking pornography in schools and libraries.