Legal and criminal aspects of the phenomenon of pornography on the internet

摘要

The proliferation of the internet services with pornographic character no longer surprises anyone nowadays, if we consider the expansion of this type of expression in classic mass-media. Analyzing the phenomenology of virtual pornography we can clearly identify, apart from the proliferation of contents of this type, the high degree of accessibility enjoyed by users. The easy identification of these pages by means of search engines and introducing keywords suggestion is outstanding. The need to incriminate the acts of production, possession and dissemination of child pornography through computer systems is undeniable. The extremely aggressive campaign addressed against this scourge has led to the perception of an attack against free speech in cyberspace.