No Child Porn Or No Porn For Child?

A federal judge in USA, thrashed down a law of 1998, which made it a crime for websites to allow children to gain access to explicit material on web. New York Times reports that the judge said that -

“the law was ineffective, overly broad and at odds with free speech rights. Judge Reed added that there were far less restrictive methods like software filters that parents could use to control their children’s Internet use.”

The question here is the clash between our desire to protect our children from anything which may destroy the joy of childhood, and freedom of expression, which more or less all constitutions guarantee their citizens.

Let’s have a look at the first of the two contestants of clash here, viz. ‘our’ desire to protect our children from anything that destroys their ‘joy of childhood’. Now the interesting part is who is this ‘our’ here?

Read more here.