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Internet Service Providers Age Of 18
1,847 wordsAlthough the U. S. created the Internet in the 1960 s as a communications tool for the military, it was not until after the government opened it to the public in the late 1980 s that the Internet became a unique communications phenomenon. Nobody could predict the speed by which people all over the world grabbed onto this new form of technological communication. In 1995, there were an estimated 56 million Internet users worldwide; by 1999, this figure is expected to rise to 200 million. This trem...
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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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Schools And Libraries Freedom Of Speech
923 wordsDuring the last decade the Internet has grown immensely, and access to the World Wide Web has become available to practically anyone. Schools and libraries across the country have hooked up to the Internet. With this vast wealth of information at the public? s fingertips, several people have become concerned that the wrong kind of information is getting to the wrong type of people, specifically children. Still, others claim it is their Constitutional right to? publish? anything they want. This r...
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Material On The Internet Sexually Explicit
1,843 wordsAs we move on into the 21 st century new questions will arise that we could never even have imagined. The speed of life has increased dramatically in the past years. With the age of the Internet already here questions like, Should the Internet be censored? What should be censored, and how could it be censored? are being asked more and more often. Some people might say that the American dream would be hurt because of a violation in our first amendment right, however if the Internet were censored,...
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Communications Decency Act Freedom Of Speech
2,161 wordsEveryone has heard of the Internet and how it is going to help set the world free. The Internet is the fastest growing form of communication and is becoming more and more commonplace in the average American home. Companies these days do big business over the Internet, and online shopping has grown tremendously in the last few years. For instance, the online auction site eBay sells millions of items every year online. Many companies are making even more plans to expand their business to the Inter...
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Pornography On The Internet Sexually Explicit
2,921 wordsInevitably, being an uncontrolled system, means that the Internet will be subjected to subversive applications of some unscrupulous users. (Kershaw) The concept of the Internet was created in answer to a strategic problem faced by the United States government during the Cold war era. A nuclear attack would easily disrupt a traditional computer network and hence make communication impossible. The solution was found in a new type of network. A network where all nodes would be equal in status, that...
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Communications Decency Act United States Congress
2,404 wordsIntroduction Don Daufenbach stared at his computer screen. Bobby 2 vt was e-mailing him again, and this time he seemed excited. Sounds like we have a deal, was the message that came in, Daufenbach says. As for what I like... the younger the better, it said. In the next week, Daufenbach says, Bobby 2 vt sent him dozens of pictures of children having sex, hoping for videos in return. Instead, Bobby 2 vt ended up with a swarm of federal agents at his door last February. Daufenbach, it turned out wa...
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Communications Decency Act Freedom Of Speech
3,318 wordsWhen the government first developed the Internet for military purposes, they had no idea that by the time the nineties came around, nearly everyone in the world would have access to a world wide web of information. Now, the Internet has exploded into one of if not the best source of information in the world. Not only that, but it has become a place where people of all different races, cultures, and societies can go to converse on different topics. Best of all, they can converse about all these t...
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