"Freedom of speech Is as good as sex." Madonna
The Netizens were up in arms: The Communications Decency Act
must be repealed. Blue ribbons appeared on many Websites as an
expression of solidarity. This Act was prompted by the American
government's attempt to prevent children from accessing the many
pornographic outlets of the Internet. This first major public
confrontation between a past controlled by literate mechanisms
and a future of illiterate unrestricted freedom seemed to be
less about sex and more about democracy. But that the two are
related, and defined within the current pragmatics of human self-
constitution, has escaped both parties to the dispute.