... software can control this designed to block offensive materials. Net Nanny is one type of software that will censor any obscene materials. The program scans the web page for any text that is deemed offensive. After the program finds the site obscene, it will not let the user view the materials. Using such a type of program will protect children only if ... the site contains such text. Otherwise, the child will be able to view the adult materials. One possibility, created and passed into law, is encoding the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (http) and File Transfer Protocol (ftp ... ...

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... or its representatives. Such changes include: exclusion, restriction, remove, or age/grade level changes." The first major downfall of censorship is due to the Internet being full of anonymity. Since text is the standard form of communication on the Internet it becomes difficult to determine the identity and age of a specific person. Nothing is known for certain about a person accessing content ... activities (regarding minors accessing restricted data) are taking place. Take for example a conversation in a chat room. Two people could be talking to one another, but all that they see is ...

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... to another in an essentially private communication that has much in common with standard postal services. Pornographic material in this medium is limited to the transfer of picture files and text files and is extremely hard to regulate without gross intrusions into individuals privacy. This service has existed as long as the Internet in its current form. Usenet News is the ... ,000, with the quantity of information posted more than doubling each year since 1993. The Internet user can post articles to any newsgroup they choose, in by doing so distribute text, graphics, videoclips, adverti...

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... controlled by using software designed to block offensive materials. Net Nanny is one type of software that will censor any obscene materials. The program scans the web page for any text that is deemed offensive. After the program finds the site obscene, it will not let the user view the materials. Using such a type of program will protect children only if ... the site contains such text. Otherwise, the child will be able to view the adult materials. One possibility, created and passed into law, is encoding the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (http) and File Transfer Protocol (ftp ... ...

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... quite obviously not be concentrating on much else. Such a magazine would not display pictures of women who mountain-climb or women who water-ski; only images of make-up and text referring to skin care would be relevant. Clearly, society does not consider women to be beings who's only purpose in life is to worry about make-up and skin care ... ...

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... of speech, may it be indecent or not. The Communications Decency Act, also know by Internet users as the CDA, is an Act that aims to remove indecent or dangerous text, lewd images, and other things deemed inappropriate from public areas of the net. The CDA is mainly out to protect children. In the beginning, the anonymity of the Internet caused ... ...

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... quite obviously not be concentrating on much else. Such a magazine would not display pictures of women who mountain-climb or women who water-ski; only images of make-up and text referring to skin care would be relevant. Clearly, society does not consider women to be beings who's only purpose in life is to worry about make-up and skin care ... ...

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... the heading above it. This not only helps to inform the reader of what they are reading, but also in finding information if they want to look back in the text later on. Since each subtopic is mainly about the heading above, pinpointing the information is much easier. Paragraphs and breaks make a piece of writing much more attractive to the reader ... ...

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... can be taken to protect children from pornographic Internet sites. What exactly is the Internet? It is a global network of computers used to transmit all types of data between computers. Text, numbers, programs, illustrations, photographs, audio, animation, and video can all be transmitted over the Internet. Contrary to what some people may think, the Internet is not a single computer nor is ... ...

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... are on a particular site. For instance, Cassanova states that, Internet sites presently combine visual illustrators, often video, with sound. Hypermedia with nonlinear links allow the transportation of pictorial information, erotic text, and recorded messages. Virtual sex is a already giving new meaning to application software. Access to pornography is no longer secretive, awkward, delicate, or expensive. For many users, the addition of ... ...

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