Do Internet Service Providers Have a Responsibility to...

Over the years, society has found ways to record sexual experiences via paint, print, film and with recent technology, the Internet. Society has used every technological step forward to portray the sexual act. With each step forward this has increased the pornography forum to a broader audience. This audience is being propelled by a powerful urge to see images of sex. Nowadays pornography and the Internet, go hand in hand. However who is regulating this material, the website companies want to make the most revenue possible and are not going to alter what is placed on the site because certain groups might find it offensive. Therefore the issue must be raised with Internet Service Providers (ISP), that would take responsibility for†¦show more content†¦With the Internet not being confined to national or international boundary, each country regulates pornography within its own national jurisdiction. Australia for example, regulates pornography using a rating system. Since early 1999, any Internet pornography considered offensive or illegal has evaluated by Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA). Highest rating in Australia would be â€Å"RC† which includes content of illegal material, such as sexual abuse of children; anything that falls within this classification is strictly prohibited on the Internet. The ACMA, issues rights and responsibilities to Internet Service Providers (ISP) to regulate the information being contributed to the World Wide Web. However this does not include websites that originate from other countries allowing a loophole in the regulations. So who should the responsibility fall upon? The differences in laws from country to country are a major contributing factor. Could the introduction of a united Censorship help to combat the every growing pornography debate. With the need to censor pornography, there are many factors that need to be considered. In the past, the arguments involved have always been central focused upon immoral and religious views of pornography. In society today discussing the regulations of the sexually explicit material, would involve understanding the principles of legislating against such imagery. Ideas of rating pornography on