sexually explicit materials through the Internet: the university’s president feared that the university could be prosecuted under state pornography laws if it did not control the access. Within the last week Towson State has prevented access to all of the alt.* groups on the Usenet which include alt.binaries.pictures.* which has sexually explicit pictures. Towson State has also included a warning on their home page that there may be pornographic material on the Internet. Pornographic material is not the
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Censorship on the Internet Five years after the first world wide web was launched at the end of 1991‚ The Internet has become very popular in the United States. Although President Clinton already signed the 1996 Telecommunication ActI on Thursday Feb 8‚ 1996‚ the censorship issue on the net still remains unresolved. In fact‚ censorship in cyberspace is unconscionable and impossible. Trying to censor the Internet its problematic because the net is an international issue‚ there is no standard for
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The problem of Internet censorship‚ the act of limiting access to undesirable sites‚ continues to grow in today’s world. While justifying censorship in other countries because of nondemocratic governments‚ the United States Constitution grants the protection of an American’s freedom of speech‚ causing for the rise of many controversies and scandals. Internet censorship occurs in many ways; however‚ the most common methods‚ IP address blocking and Domain Name System‚ DNS‚ filtering and redirection
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that‚ approximately 2.3 billion people had internet access at the end of that year. Since then‚ the percentage of people using the internet around the world has continued to grow” (Li 2). Censoring the internet has been a hot topic for quite a while now. Many people believe that censoring the web isn’t a good thing because of certain laws and rights we have as citizens. The internet has some cons but it also has many pros. The downside of the censorship is that the truth is blocked out and it violates
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Censorship‚ in true form‚ is the systematic banning of books‚ the Internet‚ or other literature due to content that has been deemed inappropriate. In the United States‚ it is used widely in the context of adolescent literature. Resistors to this movement often claim that the government is violating many children’s first amendment rights. Numerous cases have been brought. Others find this act of restricting material devastating to the education system. Censorship has infringed on children’s first
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uses internet‚ but most of the people do not know its effect. This paper aims to show the effects of internet on its users’ lives. An analytic literature review is followed. Based on twelve sources‚ the paper describes the effect of internet on three major fields in life. First‚ in their article “Online communication and adolescent relationships”‚ Subrahmanyan and Greenfield stressed on the effect of internet on the communication between friends‚ strangers and family members. Second‚ Internet has
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at night‚ these tell us that we are living now in the modern world. Technology is anywhere in anytime. It has everything to offer.The internet is one of the products of technology. It is the general term that we use‚ while the World Wide Web is the specific term. With the use of computer and other devices/gadgets (cellphone‚ iPod‚ etc.) we can access the internet‚ and within the net we can go through different web sites that gives us information‚ services and entertainment. It can be applicable to
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would be the internet. We use it to communicate‚ catch the latest news‚ research a topic‚ manage our finances‚ and so much more. Through the internet‚ individuals have been able to voice their opinion to millions. YouTube‚ Twitter‚ Facebook and other websites have become the greatest platform for free speech in the history of mankind. But many view this platform for speech as potentially dangerous. Racist groups use the web to promote their causes. Even worse‚ criminals will use the internet as an instrument
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Effects of Internet The internet is a wondrous creation and the world is progressing rapidly ever since things have become available with just a click. It has an impact on our daily lives as we all have been influenced to that extend by the internet. With the use of internet‚ life has become easier and smoother and almost all required information are at our fingertips. What exactly is Internet? It is basically a network that connects globally to millions of computers. With the onset of internet
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me stand here to deliver a speech about Internet Effect for Our Life. As we know‚ nowadays‚ Internet is very important for us. But‚ actually‚ what is the meaning of Internet ? The Internet is combined worldwide network of computers that form a global information network system. The history of Internet started in 1969 when Defense Advance Research Projects Agency (DAPRA) decided to conduct research on how to connect a number of computer. Actually‚ Internet originally used in military and university
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