Cyberscare Scrapbook

Cyberscare ScrapbookThis past summer America witnessed a truly bizarre media blitz on the dangers of Internet pornography. On the floor of the Senate, James Exon (D-Neb.) orchestrated a private tour of online copulation to enlist votes for his Communications Decency Act. The Georgetown Law Journal had published a dubious research paper by Carnegie Mellon undergrad Marty Rimm that claimed--among other things--that 83.5 percent of all digital images on Usenet were pornographic. Time, which got an...