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Credit Card Constitutional Rights
1,612 words... say no to (Rosen 15). "There are means of controlling material that parents do not want their kids to view (Levy 21). " Several devises already exist for parents that will help them filter out what they do not want their children to see. Surf watch, a software package, allows parents to have a list of forbidden sites that can not be reached. It also always parents to program it to watch for any kind of obscene language (Miller and Mauro 85). PICS are rating and filtering technology. Parents ...
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Censorship Of Pornography A Moral Issue
1,292 wordsImagine The New York Times headline reading "Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Edition Banned! !" If the pro-censorship / anti -porn sector of our society has its way, this headline may come true. Some of the pro-censorship supporters believe that women posing provocatively in bathing suits should be considered pornography and that this and all other forms of pornography should be made illegal. There is and has been a moral debate over whether or not pornography should be censored. Many individuals be...
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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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Tipper Gore Juvenile Delinquency
5,065 words... g. The Technical Report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography stated: ... efforts to restrict or censor have the psychological effect of increasing the desirability of the material. Increasing the difficulty of obtaining erotic materials, harassing and punishing pornographers and purveyors of pornography, setting minimum age limits for the purchase of these materials, and so on, may have the unwanted effect of increasing interest in the materials, rendering them more desirable, and ...
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Censor The Internet Form Of Communication
1,122 wordsLaws, enforcements, and censorship have been developed since the beginning of civilization. With freedom, comes responsibility, and with responsibility comes common sense. In a society or nation of few, laws and restriction tend to be smaller, and less complex. This is contributed by the fact that in small groups, their will be less diversity amongst them. In larger society ranging in millions to billions, the need for a more complex, organized government begins to form. No human is in fact alik...
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337 wordsHave you ever wondered why people censor music Artists? It seems that music is getting more censored than it should. They censor music because it has bad words, but its not right to do it because it messes up their lyrics. Censorship means that the government censor words on TV and music are not for children. On the internet it says that it is sometimes bad to censor and sometimes good. Artists are getting madder and madder everyday. They are blocking the Artists art and people who are listening...
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4,228 wordsAs a professional Internet publisher and avid user of the Internet, I have become concerned with laws like the Communications Decency Act of 1996 (CDA) that censor free speech on the Internet. By approving the CDA, Congress has established a precedent which condones censorship regulations for the Internet similar to those that exist for traditional broadcast media. Treating the Internet like broadcast media is a grave mistake because the Internet is unlike any information medium that has been cr...
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Sexually Explicit Material Parents Music Resource Center
2,273 wordsThe Constitution of the United States of America contains the basic rights of citizens of this country. There is, perhaps, no right more controversial than the First Amendment in the Constitution, first introduced on December 15, 1791. The First Amendment states, ? Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the g...
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Freedom Of Speech Form Of Media
2,792 wordsIn mid March of 1998, a scientific break through occurred for the engineers at NASA. The space probe that they sent to Mars came back and, for the first time, contained readable and usable photographs of the planets landscape. Full of pride over their latest achievement, NASA posted the information on the Internet. This allowed astronomy enthusiasts, students, and other interested individuals to take a first hand look at the, never before seen, Martian Landscape. (NASA) One month later, two men ...
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Newt Gingrich Carnegie Mellon
7,002 wordsFreedom of Speech &# 038; Censorship on the Internet Introduction With more and more frequency the newspapers are reporting instances of school children distributing disks of pornographic images which they have downloaded from the net and recently a university student was found to be operating such a site for material. On November 11, an Associated Press release (Phillips, 1994) reported that Carnegie Mellon University had decided to block its users from accessing sexually explicit materials thr...
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4,581 wordsGovernment Censorship Government Censorship Thesis: Government Censorship would damage the atmosphere of the freedom to express ideas on the Internet; therefore, government should not encourage censorship. Introduction I. In the Internet community, there is a large volume of technical terms. For this reason, it is first necessary to examine the terminology specific to Internet. 1. The internet is a world wide computer network. 1. Electronic mail (email), which is one component of the Internet, a...
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3,121 wordsHazelwood: History of Censorship in Education Imagine for a moment that everyone in America who favors censorship of one kind or another suddenly got their wish. Imagine they could clap their hands and cause any material that they objected to, for whatever reasons, to disappear... Virtually every film and television show would vanish... School textbooks would be so watered-down as to be meaningless. Newspapers would be forbidden to run controversial stories... (American Voices 117) The basis of ...
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3,742 wordsThe Internet is a wonderful place of entertainment and education but like all places used by millions of people, it has some murky corners people would prefer children not to explore. In the physical world society as a whole conspires to protect children, but there are no social or physical constraints to Internet surfing. The Internet Censorship Bill of 1995, also known as the Exon/Coats Communications Decency Act, has been introduced in the U. S. Congress. It would make it a criminal offense t...
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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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Years Of Age Supreme Court
3,217 wordsImagine a place where you have access to anything and everything one could want. Some would say that is only existent in a utopia, and some would say that describes the Internet. Many adults go on to the net and access pornographic material that would be unsuitable for children. This is called cyber porn. The controversy lies in the fact that children are accessing these materials also. Government, activist groups, and concerned parents are fighting to regulate obscene material found over the In...
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Communications Decency Act Year Old Man
1,974 wordsA 43 -year-old man from Boston was having a steamy cyber affair with who he thought to be a 23 -year-old woman. He later found out the she, to his dismay, was an 80 -year-old man living in a Miami nursing home. Things like this happen everyday, people mask their sex and age to avoid or attract attention on the Internet. This is only one of the reasons why the government wants to censor the Internet. They claim they want to? protect? the children by limiting the amount of? reality? they are allow...
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Unethical Practices Word Censor Journalists
381 wordsAny journalist who completes college in journalism is taught the Journalists Code of Ethics. Journalists are taught these ethics to insure that all journalists will act in a professional and ethical manner. Yet the media violates these codes when they censor music for any reason other than profanity. The first of these codes states: they are taught to support the open exchange of views, even views they find repugnant (Society). This is perhaps the most important code that journalists are to foll...
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Special Interest Groups John Stuart Mill
9,500 words. INHEAD . AD Music and Censorship Victor Lombardi December 1991 Second Reader: Alan Stuart Instructor: Richard Hixon Introduction Our society today largely views censorship as a method that has disappeared from liberal cultures since the enlightenment with the exception of restrictions in time of war. The enlightenment served to cripple the intolerance of incisive religious and government leaders, but did not obliterate censorship altogether. Instead, the job of expurgating unacceptable ideas h...
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