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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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2,215 words... rom viewing unsuitable material on the Net. In addition, Meleedy, a computer science graduate student at Harvard University, questions that if "the Internet makes democracy this accessible to the average citizen, is it any wonder Congress wants to censor it?" (Meleedy 1) Allison and Baxter assert that, "the most significant new properties of the Internet media are the diversity of information sources and their ability to reach almost anywhere in the world. Authors range from major corporatio...
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Access To Information Childs Play
1,581 words... gives the BBFC statutory recognition as the regulator of licensing of videos charged with monitoring material that is suitable for home viewing. Censorship bodies have written the rules about what is prohibited in films, and these have been subject to change over time, depending partly on the expressed concern of the public, but mainly on what the government and the main church of the country wants. In more recent times, such censorship bodies have surrendered to their power, particularly in...
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World A Better Place Music Industry
627 wordsCensorship, making the world a better place. Censorship affects our society in many different ways, it affects the music we listen to, the movies we watch, the books we read, and many other aspects of our everyday lives. Even though many might argue that censorship doesn t really have a place in a society that emphases freedom of speech and the freedom to express oneself, but censorship is an essential and needed part of our growing society, it s needed in the television industry, the Internet, ...
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Freedom Of Speech Violence In The Media
1,273 wordsCensorship should be Censored by our Society In today? s society there is an issue of whether or not certain topics that aren? t fully accepted by our culture should have set restrictions on them to prevent any individuals from being offended. This ideal concept of conforming everyone in a given group to accept and hold the same views has come about as a process known as censorship. Censorship is defined as? The change in the access status of material, made by a governing authority or its repres...
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1,086 wordsCENSORSHIP IN SCHOOL IS NOT RIGHT I believe that Imposing censorship within Americas schools is not only against the First Amendment of the United State Constitution, but it is also against the very moral fiber upon which this country was founded. In an attempt to limit access to so-called sensitive issues and concepts, radical right wing supporters have pushed their weight around to remove any and all questionable works of literature from school libraries. The right to interpret the written wor...
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1,131 wordsCensorship of American Music Although is clearly states in the first amendment that 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 to peaceably assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances, censorship in America still exists in a big way. I think censorship can be applied to almost anything, including music of all kinds. Music cens...
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3,160 wordsErin Lowe- also author of many " outstanding" American History essays. of which two are published somewhere here... one about Peter Noyes, and another about Mercantilism... " Books wont stay banned. They wont burn. Ideas wont go to jail? In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education. " The only way that th...
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Communications Decency Act Moral Guidance
1,237 wordsThesis: Censorship of the Internet, because it limits free speech and economic freedom, is unconstitutional Although the Internet was created in the 1960 s as a communications tool for the U. S. military to withstand a severe nuclear war and still be operable, until the government opened it up to public use in the late 1980 s. The Internet became a unique communications phenomenon. Nobody could predict the speed which people all over connected the world on to this new form of technological commu...
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947 wordsInternet Censorship The 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 wants 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 ...
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Internet Censorship Doesn T
815 wordsThe First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America states that congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free practice thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peacefully to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances. However, in the 1990 s, many books, music, and online services have been under attack. The banning of literature, music, and other forms of ex...
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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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1,269 wordsUtopia through Materials? Ray Bradbury s Fahrenheit 451 is a novel about a materialistic society that has forgotten social interaction with each other. This materialistic society is where Bradbury believed society today is headed. The materialistic society in Fahrenheit 451 created through Bradbury s cynic views of society. His views of society are over-exaggerated in contrast with today s events, especially in the areas of censorship and media mediocrity. The purpose of media is quite simple, i...
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Material On The Internet Difficult To Find
2,323 wordsIntroduction 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 through the Internet: the university's president feared ...
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Kansas City Star First Amendment Rights
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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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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Sexually Explicit Material Communications Decency Act
2,240 wordsIs Internet Censorship Needed? Internet censorship seems to be the target of many debates nowadays in the U. S. due to the rising popularity of the internet and the large amounts of pornography, warez, illegal drugs, and general threats to society. It is a very hard subject to handle, after all no one really is in charge of the internet, and in fact no one really owns it except perhaps the? millions of people throughout the world who contribute to it in various ways? (Burton). The argument for c...
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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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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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Sexually Explicit Material Work Of Art
1,205 wordsEver wondered the reason behind racial discrimination, sexual discrimination, children committing crime or violence? The main reason is that censorship is not properly imposed or there is a need of censorship in the society. Censorship is the suppression of ideas and information that certain people, individual, groups or government officials find it objectionable, offensive or dangerous on others. There are varieties of other definitions but all have in common the concept of withholding informat...
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