... National Science Foundation in the 1980s eventually led to the Internet being opened to commercial traffic. Services provided over the Internet include the World Wide Web, electronic mail (the most popular service), Newsgroups, and Chat. For one computer to communicate with another computer on the Internet, both computers ... , the distribution of indecent material on the Internet was made illegal. Another law, the Child Online Protection Act, pertains solely to commercial Web sites and focuses on material that could be damaging to minors. Under this law, a person could not view online ma...

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Since the introduction of the World Wide Web in 1989 by Tim Burners-Lee, many different debates have arisen over various aspects of the Internet. That is expected since there are so many different types of information available on the Web ranging from poetry to games to news to even pornography. Some argue that ... any law, be it speeding, anti-trust or Internet. So if the United States passes Internet Censorship laws then only web sites based in the United States must obey them. Web sites in other countries do not. The special feature about the Internet is that anyone with access to it can ...

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... A mid-1999 search entered in Alta Vista for the term childsex' yielded 149,950 sites, while the term kiddieporn' turned up 23,280 Web pages. Yet, David Kerr, Chief Executive of the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF), says most Websites are legal (p.245). Pornography is unbelievably high on ... for the following applications: games (70.3%), homework (47.4%), education (31.5%), word processing (30.9%), learning to use the computer (23.7%). Internet . The percentage of Americans using the Web decreases with age: ages 18 - 24 (49%), ages 25 - 29 (37%), ages 50 - 64 (21%), and ages 65 and older ...

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... money. 4. Information Overload-with the availability of information on the Net, people spend greater amounts of time searching and collecting data from the web and organizing information 5. Computer Addiction-during the 80's, computer games such as Solitaire and Minesweeper were programmed into computers and researchers found that ... their affiliates responsible for the addict's problems? Lavamind, a company that produces computer games, quoted one of their customers in an advertisement on their web page. "Why is this thing so damned addictive?" is what the customer wrote to Lavamind (L...

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... . There's high-speed communication, and there's stalking perverts. There's valuable research information, and there's explicit material. The Internet isn't just simply black or white. You can't argue that our world wide web is a source of corruption; neither can you say that it was the best invention ever. The Internet can make our lives a hundred times easier with a simple click of a mouse. Nevertheless ... , you know? You eat the right amount and it's good for you. You have too much of it and you get sick. Ever since the Internet appeared on the scene, web-related jobs have sprung up, o...

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... Nations estimates that as many as 1 million women are traded for forced sex or servitude in countries from the former Soviet Union to Europe to the Middle East, creating a global web of trafficking routes. This is a process known as "white slavery". Most of those who are kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery are young girls. The pornography industry depends on the ... 't learn this anywhere else living in a society that puts women's bodies on display. There needs to be a stop to this idea that women are mere sexual beings. It is so wide spread in the media that I fear it is not possible...

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