... 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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... 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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... 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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... their pursuits in the presence of children on a taxpayer created and subsidized computer network.3 People like this are the ones in the wrong. Taxpayer's dollars are being spent bringing obscene text and graphics into the homes of people all over the world. The government must take control to prevent pornographers from using the Internet however they see fit because they are ... ...

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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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