Philip Jenkins

No evidence shows that enhanced police power will reduce the sexual exploitation of children through child pornography on the Internet, Philip Jenkins asserts in the following viewpoint. In fact, he maintains, enhancing police surveillance powers and restricting the use of encryption programs erodes personal liberties. Laws that combat the few who exploit children on the Internet, argues Jenkins, should not destroy the rights of the many who do not. Jenkins is a professor of history and religious studies at Pennsylvania State University and author of Beyond Tolerance: Child Pornography on the Internet, from which the following viewpoint was taken.

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