Joe Lieberman: “I am proud to stand and join my colleagues from Arizona and Washington in voicing concerns about the spread of…”

“I am proud to stand and join my colleagues from Arizona and Washington in voicing concerns about the spread of pornography on the Internet and the general direction in which the information superhighway is moving. Like my colleagues, I am very troubled by the story that USA Today carried this morning about a particular web site-- www.ourfirsttime.com_that is promising to broadcast a video feed of two 18-year-old high school graduates having sexual intercourse for the first time as it happens next month. As Senator McCain indicated, it may be that this site is a hoax, but it makes a statement about the Internet and the values in cyberspace which is all too real, because it shows that there are practically no stop signs on the information superhighway. The important point here is that two teenagers could quite easily decide to do this and invite every wired American child effectively to a live sex show, regardless of their age, which tells us that there are no recognizable boundaries in cyberspace, no common standards of decency or taste, or any shared sense of accountability.”