... is becoming a medium of communication and interaction between humans, namely the World Wide Web. This old but yet new medium is expanding and changing rapidly, thus making it close to impossible to control. The World Wide Web is offering more to society now than it ever has before, created by the ... Netizens", and few clicks away from databases, essays, articles, and multimedia presentations on any entity whatsoever. For the same reasons that the World Wide Web is so valuable and popular, it is also bad and dangerous. You might be able to shop around for an airplane ticket and might .....

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... purpose of this analysis, the broad wordchildren? will be condensed to contain two age groups -- elementary level, ages' 5-12, and secondary level, ages' 13-18. At either level, the World Wide Web poses clear dangers to children. These children grow up enlightened with technology, which they take for granted and know exactly how to use it. Most parents are not conscious of ... rules of on-line privacy and anonymity, law enforcement officers have found these criminals to be hard to detect and locate. There are millions of web pages dealing with a wide variety of subject matter available ...

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... 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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... has found new means of expression and a new problem for society to deal with. The Internet provides three major services to its users: E-mail, Usenet News and the World Wide Web (WWW). E-mail is the transfer of information from one user to another in an essentially private communication that has much in common with standard postal services. Pornographic material in this ... each year since 1993. The Internet user can post articles to any newsgroup they choose, in by doing so distribute text, graphics, videoclips, advertisements, or inevitably, pornography. The World Wide Web is the resour...

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... kinds of issues make the Government's job of regulating the Internet very difficult. One person should not be withheld from media or information on the web because the website could be accessed by minors. This creates a privacy issue that is hard to regulate. An example like this can be in ... straightforward. The user simply enters their destination like they would in a normal browser. The myShield servers act as filters between its users and the World Wide Web" (Coventry, 2002). This type of Internet privacy solution is very helpful because it disables the identification and logging of...

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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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... explicit material? The amount of business pages, school pages, personal homepages, and computer related web pages far outweigh the amount of sexually explicit material. Miller agrees saying "Compared to the overall size of the Web, however, the proportion of sites that are devoted to sexually explicit material is small". ... thought what would happen to all the people who do intentionally visit these sites every day who are adults? "Nine million people visit sexually explicit Web sites each day according to The New York Times" (Miller). With the amount of legit people who look at these s...

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... , the worlds biggest search engine. However both of these engines have over 60 million cataloged web pages. Although this material makes up less that 1% of all messages on USENET or pages on the world-wide-web, that is still a staggering number as there are millions of messages and web-pages on the internet. Most of this material is extremely hard to access as advanced ... be a shame, however, if the damaging flaws in Rimm's study obscured the larger and more important debate about hard-core porn on the Internet. So as a response to the hysteria wide-sweeping legislational machinery was ...

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... programs to ensure children have an enriching and safe online experience" ("ALA Challenges Children's Internet Protection Act" 1). This is a good way to teach children to stay away from harmful, pornographic web sites. As Internet use grows, so do the risks of children being exposed to inappropriate material, in particular, criminal activity by pedophiles. While the benefits of the Internet far outweigh ... to children and will become the struggle to future Internet use. Another concern of most parents is pedophiles, which are people who look to exploit children sexually over the World W...

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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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Internet Censorship? The Internet is used in every stretch of the earth where it is accessible. "The world-wide-web is just that: worldwide" (Gozic 2); however, various parties could consider some of the content inappropriate. The issue at hand is whether or not the government should step in and use ... so large by a single organization" (Chan 4). Many people feel that by placing strict rules on the Internet that their freedom of speech is being restricted. Organizations all over the World Wide Web flourish in their prophecies of freedom to do and say as they wish on the Internet, as it is a...

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... way to spice up their sex life, and even acts as a way to strengthen and stabilise marriages and relationships. It can be part of a wide spectrum of approaches to sex and entertainment. Some people may be turned on by less pornographic films, but that does not mean there is no place ... , this technology now permits real time video contact. " some have argued that the desire to sell pornography over the web has been one of the key factors behind the development of virtual visual technology video players". (Mirzeoff 1999: 108) The viewing of pornographic material through ... web cams et...

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Virtually every advancement of communications technology has precipitated a controversy over the rights of freedom of expression under the first amendment. Internet access to the word wide web is no exception. Internet materials having widely varied sexual content are readily available to users of the Internet. In 1996, the Supreme Court overruled the Communications Decency Act, which would ... complex component of creating this system. Their sole purpose is to categorize website sexual content and assign each website with a rating. This is a daunting task given the enormous number of web si...

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... the same gateway address of. sabanciuniv:required URL, students of Sabanci University are responsible for the results of their acts on the World Wide Web, because every attempt that each student do on the net, are being logged by the web servers or Internet Service Providers, under the name of Sabanci University, and so under the name of Sabanci Family. From this point ... of the IT Department of S.U last year, there were several hacking attempts to several ISP Services and also there were attempts to gain access to illegal pornographic materials on the web. As a result of these attempt...

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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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... societies, Van Der Leun reveals the artistic aspect of pornography to Neolithic paintings, comparing similar modern day images to that of "prehistoric sculptures of females with pendulous breasts and very wide hips" (Van Der Leun 476). Such images of the female body can now be found within the pages of Playboy, Penthouse, and Swedish Erotica. Although Van Der Leun relates the ... intelligence level needed to access pornographic images on the internet, Van Der Leun points out that not much intellect is necessary to view the graphics that are available on the web. At the same time questio...

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... rope." With these lacking, Monke also states that "We should not be surprised when they "solve" personal and social problems by turning to drugs, guns, hateful Web logs, or other powerful "tools," rather than digging deep within themselves or searching out others in the community for support." This social awkwardness and lack of much ... ;Facebook is a deliberate experiment in global manipulation" I'm not quite sure I believe that this social site is capable of that, but I do feel strongly that this leaves their informational door wide open to financial predators as well as the sexual on...

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... these advertisements is an adult. Media coverage of Internet pornography is an example of moral panic but it is groundless. The porn industry has found it's niche on the World Wide Web and business is booming. It is unfortunate that the Internet is so permeated with it that any child surfing the net for any extended period of time is very likely ... ...

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... some link to pornography. Many Internet sites have the equivalent of an entire pornographic bookstore on line. Hard core pictures are being scanned into computers and being made available through web sites along with detailed pornographic stories. Federal law requires porno sites to make good faith efforts to restrict access to indecent material by requiring users to provide a verified credit card ... pornography. The FCC should crackdown and close all dial-a-porn services. But most of all the community must enlist in the front line battle against pornography. In summary, Americans have...

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... some link to pornography. Many Internet sites have the equivalent of an entire pornographic bookstore on line. Hard core pictures are being scanned into computers and being made available through web sites along with detailed pornographic stories. Federal law requires porno to sites make good faith efforts to restrict access to indecent material by requiring users to provide a verified credit card ... to have the FCC crackdown and close all dial-a-porn services, but, most of all, the community must enlist in the front line battle against pornography. In summary, Americans have a wide ra...

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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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... 10 percent per moth, and the number of new applications and services has been increasing almost as quickly." (LaQuey 6) There are tens of thousands of sites scattered throughout the world wide web where items ranging from games to sex toys can be ordered through a First Virtual Internet Account, or just by providing your e-mail address (not a very good idea if you want ... ...

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... use the new media. Graphic images of bestiality, incest and sodomy coast along the information highway and it is called cyberporn. The term "cyberporn" refers to pornography on the World Wide Web. Pornography is defined by Webster's dictionary as "The presentation of sexually explicit behavior, as in a photograph, intended to arouse sexual excitement." Pornographic material does not belong in the reach of ... ...

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... , 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 is for a child to come to get these inappropriate ... ...

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