Pornography.....

What Limits Should Campus Networks Place on Pornography?

By: Robert O’Neil

                In O’Neil’s article, he does a great job supporting his major point with minor points. He brings a great argument to the table by expressing both sides of the argument of allowing or restricting the ability to search pornography on the internet at a campus.

                O’Neil uses the college of Cal Poly as his example of a college trying to restrict the use of pornographic websites on their campus. He brings insight to how the faculty have abused this right, and how it brings risk of virus infections. O’Neil writes, “one professor left the institution last year after being convicted on misdemeanor charges….for the purpose of downloading in his office thousands of sexually explicit images.”

                He chooses to be clear and concise with his word choice, which makes his topic stronger.  He doesn’t use the long words that no one understands, in which you need a dictionary to decipher what is behind the long word, but uses strong and intense words as in ethical, salacious, explicit and more. He keeps his audience aware of the different point of views from both sides of the argument. And he does a great job addressing both sides of the argument, in which they both use the First Amendment as a point to make the in the argument. O’Neil proves that he has a lot of knowledge on the subject by presenting material as to how the school system have to work around the First Amendment if they want to restrict the use of pornography.

                Overall, O’Neil brings light in a long article with a direct focus on the importance of how to address the issue of pornography. I feel that with every word he uses he depicts the affects the results from either side could have.