... the internet can be used for. You could read documents and obtain projects and reports from anywhere in the world through your computer. The downside to conducting business over the net is the possibility of a hacker infiltrating private documents and using them for whatever he/she pleases. The internet can have a good influence on society as well as a bad one. On ... of bad stuff too, the stuff you hear about most often on the news or in magazines. The internet is one of the few uncensored forms of mass communication. The net is loaded with pornographic images and movies as well as dir...

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SEX in the Net! A social and ethical essay task designed to provide students with a broader insight into both the Internet and computer ethics. Since the beginning of time, men and women have fantasised over ... , however when it comes to censoring material which goes all over the world, a balance must be found between the censorship laws of all the countries that are hooked into the net. Here a problem arises, because Denmark has no censorship of pornography, so obviously they are going to be somewhat annoyed if it is banned from the Internet since their laws state ... ...

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Indecency On The Net Reno v. American Civil Liberties Union "If it's illegal in print or broadcast to get a Hustler or Penthouse magazine, sell it to a child, distribute it to a child, display it to a child, ... view. They also claimed that parents, rather than the government, should determine what their children receive on the Internet. Parental supervision, assisted by technological tools such as blocking software like Net Nanny and SurfWatch, could monitor and regulate children's access to the Internet. Another problem with the CDA was that the law is also virtually impossible to enforce;...

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... material. Even with this new law in effect many people are still trying and some are succeeding at censoring the Internet. They are creating schemes to block and rate the net. A meeting recently took place at the White House about this subject. Several industry leaders and the government agreed to try to originate a variety of systems to block and regulate controversial ... ...

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... Online and Internet Addiction (netaddiction.com), states that nearly 6% of over 17,000 respondents in an online survey met the criteria for compulsive Internet use and 30% use the Net to escape from negative feelings. This article states there are five particular types of Internet addiction: 1. Cybersexual Addiction-people involved in pornography or in adult role play chat rooms 2. ... Cyber-Relational Addiction-on line friends become more important than real life relations with family and friends 3. Net gaming-it encompasses different behaviors such as gaming, shopping, or stock trading...

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... rooms. Who does the responsibility belong to? The parents should be the ones that are responsible for what their children view on the Internet. The net itself can be very valuable if used as a tool for learning. In the group Families Against Internet Censorship, they understand the concept of parental filtering ... you maximize the world's resources from inside the comforts of home? I know that a young teenager can productively use this information. I have been using the net for about eight years for my reports and personal knowledge quests. My father would check on me every now and again...

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... creates a debate over what is censorship and what is really too explicit to be shown to the masses in any public medium. "The Net is the ultimate intellectual jumble. Brainy discussions of physics coexist with sophomoric essays, where sites that present satellite weather images are only a few clicks ... material onto the screens of the child's computer. Self-regulation through responsible parenting is encouraged by vendors of "minder" software such as Net Nanny and SurfWatch, however there are no official watchdogs for these programs that will tell users exactly what sites are filtered....

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... rooms. Who does the responsibility belong to? The parents should be the ones that are responsible for what their children view on the Internet. The net itself can be very valuable if used as a tool for learning. In the group Families Against Internet Censorship, they understand the concept of parental filtering ... you maximize the world's resources from inside the comforts of home? I know that a young teenager can productively use this information. I have been using the net for about eight years for my reports and personal knowledge quests. My father would check on me every now and again...

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The Internet and Child Pornography Everyday millions of people get on their computers and surf the net. We can access things that are thousands of miles away in less than a minute. The Internet has made everything convenient to the ... the growth being so strong it is everywhere and has become hard to adequately control. It is probable to say that anyone who has been on the net long enough, regardless of age, will come across Internet pornography. Proprietors of Internet pornography are in business to make money, and will do anything to ... exploitation, pornography, hate literature, excess...

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... 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 it to become a haven for the free ... trading of pornography. This is mainly what gives the Internet a bad name. There is also information on the Net that could be harmful to children. Information on how to make home-made explosives and similar info such as The Jolly Rodgers and the Anarchist's ... Cookbook are easily obtained on the Net. Pedop...

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... Unfortunately every society has its seedy underside and the internet is no exception. To fully understand the many layers to this problem, an understanding of net history is required. Some thirty years ago the RAND corporation, Americas first and foremost Cold War think-tank faced a strange strategic problem. The ... African swallows. Some users wish to display "objectionable" material on their homepages. This may have started out as a prank to some, but now net- porn is an offshoot industry on the information superhighway. Companies like Playboy and Hustler run their own servers that ar...

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... children? Whose responsibility is it to ensure their safety? Should the government, parents, or Internet service providers take charge of controlling the net? Sad as it is, the freedom that sparks creativity, and the exchange of ideas on the net, also opens door to danger. Among the dangers, are exploitation of children that potentially makes them victims of both sex and violence ... parents stood out as having the most responsibility for keeping their children safe. In the past, parents did not do a great deal to watch their children while surfing on the net because there was little if...

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... of the material that is available on the Internet. I believe that Internet censorship is un-necessary for the following two reasons. First of all, any type of censorship on the net is inefficient and would prove to be technically impossible due to anomity. Secondly, censorship would damage the atmosphere of the freedom to express ideas on the Internet; therefore governments should ... to express ideas on the Internet. The Internet was originally a place for people to freely express their ideas worldwide. Most Internet users are enjoying their freedom of speech on the Net, and according ...

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... Internet are likely the ones who are going out looking for it. She further argues that these children will simply find it elsewhere if they cannot find it on the net. In Wilkins" article moral panic is defined as "a wave of public concern, anxiety, and fervor about something, usually perceived as a threat to society". In recent years Internet pornography has come ... under public scrutiny and that as a result of this, very restrictive guidelines have been put on what can and cannot be published on the net. And sometimes these restrictions cause useful information on topics such as art a...

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... pornography's popularity and the growth being so strong it is everywhere and has become hard to effectively control. It is feasible to say that anyone who has been on the net long enough, regardless of age, will come across Internet pornography. Owners of Internet pornography are in business to make money, and will do anything to achieve this. They advertise their ... be taught about exploitation, pornography, hate literature, excessive violence and other issues that concern them. One way that this can be controlled by using software designed to block offensive materials. Net Nanny is o...

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... Internet is a vast, anarchic forum uncontrolled and uncontrollable" (Carr 603). This is not true though. The internet may be vast and seemingly uncontrollable but there are programs available such as Net Nanny and other filtering software that can be installed on home computers to prohibit access to certain sites deemed unfit for children to look at. These programs use a predetermined list ... added to the internet every day, the programs have to be constantly updated, meaning there may be sites that can slip through a digital loophole. Net Nanny is an example of one of these filtering ...

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... a music band you like and you accidentally click a link and before you now it you are being subjected to hard core pornography. It just became apparent that pornography on the net not only encompasses controversies about pornography itself, but also all the other controversies and problems the internet already has. Sex has always been something which has intrigued people, and that ... seen it, it can never be erased from their minds."(1). Others call it the "first free speech case of the 21st century" and think that by restricting pornography on the net "The future of the Internet is at...

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... Amendment Approved by Senate." Jim Exon News. 14 June 1995. Exon, James J., and Dan Coats. Letter to United States Senators. 27 July 1995. Gaffin, Adam. "Are Firms Liable For Employee Net Postings?" Network World. Dialog Magazine Database, 042574. 20 Feb. 1995, 8. Gibbs, Mark. "Congress 'Crazies' Want To Carve Up Telecom." Network World. Dialog Magazine Database, 039436. 12 Sept. 1994, 37. Horowitz ... , Mark. "Finding History On The Net." American Heritage. Oct. 1995, 38. Laberis, Bill. "The Price of Freedom." Computerworld. Dialog Magazine Database, 036777. 25 Apr. 1994, 34. Messmer, E...

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... or sex. No pop-up on your screen, don't worry pornographic material is still easy to obtain. Type a key word into any search engine and the engine will search the net for topics related to that word or idea. Like sex, if you ask the computer to search the web for anything related to sex, then of course you will be ... proven to develop disrespectful attitudes toward women. The bottom line is that pornography is much too easy to conceive. If anyone at any time has the ability to surf the net, then of course people will look at pornography. What you have to ask yourself is do you want you...

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... proceed if you feel you might be offended by its content. Should this type of website be available to young children, or should kids have the right to surf the net free of fear? An act has been passed requiring public libraries to filter content that may be harmful or offensive. That act is the CIPA, Children's Internet Protection Act. The ... the filtering software would take precedence and shut down the browser. As a matter of fact the computers issued to students in this Digital Arts program here at Thompson Institute have a net filter installed on them. This very filter has made man...

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... communication on the Internet (Bender). This movement has granted censors the right to pick at the Internet as they please. Unfortunately for society, this act was passed by "an admittedly Net-illiterate Congress" (Quittner). The problems with the Internet and censorship are caused mainly by the pornographic sites. Parents do not want their children to see smut. To prevent this, many ... , led by John Lindsay of Kingston University, attempted to replicate reports and accidentally find things, and failed (Lindsay). A person not looking for these sites is relatively safe when surfing the n...

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... of earlier activities, any problems can and usually have rectified themselves (Affonso). When kids control the medium, they often develop faster. If fact, "most kids who spend time on the "net aren't taking time away from their homework, hanging out with friends, playing soccer or learning the piano. To date, the main victim of the ... "net is television." Most kids are learning, developing, and thriving in the digital world (Tapscott). Computers do not have to be good or evil. They can be used in many different ... ...

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... , or broadcast over the airwaves (2). Hacker declares that, nearly 40 million Americans are online--an estimated 4 million are under 18 years old. According to Hacker, the four most commonly used "Net" functions are e-mail; access to the World Wide Web; special interest bulletin boards, and chat rooms. Obscene pornography can be found on all of them (3). Hacker argues how easy it ... this case, speech (3). According to Meeks, the court also laid to rest the taboo that kids could stumble unwittingly across pornography on the Internet (2). For this to be true, the net would have to be perv...

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... almost any individual can now obtain a variety of graphic images through the internet. In "This is a Naked Lady", Van Der Leun touches on the controversial topic of pornography on the net. Tracing back through time the growth and immergence of such material into the popular culture, Van Der Leun asserts that the lewd art form is now more than ever becoming ... ...

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... the massive amount of data volume, make Internet regulation unfeasible (Chapman 132). Gary Chapman, director of the 21st Century Project, submits, "Trying to locate illegal or offensive data on the net would be harder than trying to isolate two paired words in all the world's telephone conversations and TV transmissions at once," (132). The Internet is an enormous "entity" that is ... ...

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