The Internet, Pornography, and Children why should anyone be concerned about pornography on the Internet?
The Internet, Pornography, and Children why should anyone be concerned about pornography on the Internet? After all, this is a free country and everyone should have access to anything they want, right? This position would be true if only adults used the Internet; it cannot be true when children also use the Internet. Most people would agree that children should not have access to Internet sites that are considered pornographic. Does that mean that children should not be allowed Internet access or that the Internet should not have pornographic sites? Of course it doesn't mean that! What it does mean is that the issues arising from the mixture of children and Internet should be dealt with and not ignored. This paper will attempt to intelligently discuss some of those issues. Areas covered will include what the Internet is, risks to children wh
The number of adults online in the United States by the end of 1998 has been estimated as low as 44 million and as high as 80 million. At the end of 1997, the number of children online was almost 10 million. It is estimated that by the year 2002, 45 million children will be online. While it is not clear how many these children have access to the Internet at home, it is clear what percentage of them have access at school. Currently, about 81.8% of all American schools have the Internet. It is estimated by the end of the 1998-1999 school year, about 95.9%of all American schools will be hooked up to the Internet. Though the Internet seems relatively new, its roots actually start in the 1960s. In 1969,the Department of Defense started the "ARPANET" project. ARPANET was a decentralized computer network that was used to link military researchers a
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