ABSTRACT
Online obscenity and child pornography have attracted considerable legislative attention over the past two decades. ere is good reason; the downloading of pornography continues to be the leading type of improper use of business networks. As an example, Robert Johnson, the CEO of Bowne & Co. and former publisher of Newsday, a Long Island, New York, newspaper, and former member of the New York State Board of Regents, pleaded guilty in August 2006 for possession of child pornography that he downloaded by using the company network at Bowne & Co. e United States also indicted Johnson for obstruction of justice, charging that he attempted to remove the evidence of pornography from the hard drive of the company’s desktop computer.1
