Bill Clinton: “You know, when the bomb blew up in Oklahoma City and the Federal building was destroyed and all those people were…”

“You know, when the bomb blew up in Oklahoma City and the Federal building was destroyed and all those people were killed, we pointed out that the way the Internet is going with these webpages, people can learn how to build bombs like that on the Internet. And there is a limit to how much we can control it. And we're looking for ways to try to at least help parents deal with what their children can get off the Internet, and a way to use ordinary law enforcement tactics effectively against people who are trying to do illegal things over the Internet. But it's very difficult. I mean, one of the things that's wonderful about the Internet is kind of its capacity for infinite expansion. And that's one of the great things about it. I don't know how many teachers here now get research papers where all the sources are off the Internet. But it's great. That's the good news. The bad news is, it's almost impossible to find this stuff, sort it out, and figure out whether it's illegal or not, and do something about it. But I agree with you; it's going to be one of the big challenges we face, because there's been a lot of talk about--if you've seen in the last 3 or 4 days--about whether the Internet plus having very young people play very violent video games and where they learn to shoot people and stuff, that those two things have added an extra element to an otherwise already pretty violent culture. And I think we're going to have to take another look at it. It's not easy. I don't want to pretend that it's easy. If you look at how many thousands and thousands of pages, webpages, are being added to the Internet every day, it's the fastest growing organism in human history for communications. And it presents us a great challenge. [A student stated that it would be very hard for the Government to control information on the Internet in a society with a free press and free speech. He said that the responsibility rested with parents to monitor what their children could access on the Internet.]”