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Cyber Patrol Internet Censorship
1,610 wordsThere is nothing more frightening than active ignorance, the German poet Goethe stated. Ignorance is alarming, no matter what good intentions it is hidden behind. Today, an ignorance of the issue of Internet censorship has left a threat to free speech, our constitutional right. Even worse, many of our lawmakers are the ones feeding this fire. The first major law concerning the matter was the Communications Decency Act (CDA) of 1996. The CDA made it a crime to transmit indecent material over the ...
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Schools And Libraries Advantages And Disadvantages
1,718 wordsThe Internet has been in universal use for many years. It is a powerful research and communication tool, and it can be used for personal enjoyment. However, there is a dark side to the Internet. There is obscenity on the Internet. There is also explicit but legal material [... ]. There are bomb recipes, militia materials, hate speech of every stripe mixed in small amounts with political, legal, medical, technical, and sports-related resources, the rock music fan pages, [and] the science fiction ...
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Civil Liberties Union American Civil Liberties
1,664 words... t started to grow into wide use, the Government began to become concerned about what children were being exposed to online. Until the Government began to interfere, most libraries did not use Internet filtering. Many cases of minors being exposed to pornography began to appear. In the year 2000, Bill Clinton signed the Childrens Internet Protection Act (CIPA) as part of Federal Bill HR 4577. The CIPA required schools and libraries that had federal funding designated for Internet use to insta...
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U S Schools Ethical Issues
1,597 wordsThe Use of Internet Filters Introduction The use of internet filters as a method to block offensive internet content in schools and universities is very delicate question, especially because it involves ethical issues. Any free access to information cuts both ways, so no wonder that internet is no exception to the rule. On the one hand the arguments of those, who support use of browsers for filtering sensible data in schools and universities, sound quite convincing; however, on the other hand, t...
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Internet Censorship Federal Funding
925 wordsThe internet was created in the 1960 s as a communication tool for the military so that if there was a nuclear attack the military could still communicate according to the internet censorship report. It wasn t until the 1980 s that it was opened up to the public. The number of people on the internet has grown from an estimated 56 million in 1995 to over 200 million in 1999 according to the same web site. The internet itself did not become a debatable topic until NBC ran a segment in 1994 on the ...
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Cyber Patrol Internet Censorship
1,629 words? There is nothing more frightening than active ignorance, ? the German poet Goethe stated. Ignorance is alarming, no matter what good intentions it is hidden behind. Today, an ignorance of the issue of Internet censorship has left a threat to free speech, our constitutional right. Even worse, many of our lawmakers are the ones feeding this fire. The first major law concerning the matter was the Communications Decency Act (CDA) of 1996. The CDA made it a crime to transmit indecent material over ...
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