With the continuing growth of literally thousands of adult-oriented sexually explicit Web sites, concern and controversy have arisen regarding censorship and the legal issues surrounding it. Some of the statistics demonstrate just how enormous this market has become. The nations of the world have each formulated laws governing forms of speech usually reflective of what they deem to be in the best interest of its culture and society. As is the case in the Korea, in foreign countries the standards for obscenity vary, making it virtually impossible to establish predictability as to whether online material will be allowed or prohibited. Such issues surround the importation and exportation of pornography and attempts to regulate it. I think we have to keep in mind the following factors that affect and determine the ability or inability to achieve a worldwide agreement on prohibiting obscene materials. Firstly, there is no body of international law governing the transmission or receipt of obscene material, nor any universal definition or set of standards regarding it. Secondly, cultural, moral, and legal characteristics usually form the basis of a country`s views on obscene and other forms of speech. Thirdly, it is virtually impossible for one country to impose or enforce its laws on another country. Fourth, a provider in a country with strict obscenity standards may transmit materials to a country with more liberal standards, and from there it is accessible worldwide by a simple click. In this article, I just tried to research for the online service provider`s liabilities of illegal informations, like as obscene materials, on cyberspace.
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