The Internet has started to change the way of the world during this decade. More homes, companies, and schools are getting hooked online with the Internet during the past few years (Malkin & Marine). Hence making it accessible to almost everyone and predominantly used in everyday life.

By the sharing of information, the Internet has allowed a global society to exist within cyberspace. A society not run by and governments or laws but contributed to by all the users within it and accessible to everyone. As it stands now, the Internet seem to be the only truly democratic society in the world.

Cyberspace is a global community of people using computers in networks supported by the Internet. Over 17 million Web pages float throughout cyberspace (Malkin & Marine). Never before has information been so instant, and so global.

The Internet supports many forms of relaying information and communicating. From sending electronic mail (e-mail), reading the works of Shakespear, instantly talking to people on the other side of the world just by typing, listening to music, orderin

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It is a fact that some materials found on the Internet have indeed caused concern. For example bomb and drug recipes. There have been a number of cases in the past few years where people had found these recipes and attempted to follow them, but for one reason or another the incident turned to fatality. Now, of course it can be argued that for these reasons certain information on the Internet should be censored. However, the main issue, which isn't being acknowledged, is the individuals' responsibility for both the writing and reading of these materials. The Internet is not the cause of the fatalities. Indeed if anyone really wanted to learn how to make a bomb or a drug they could have gone to their local library and found books about it there. The only difference is that the Internet is easily accessible, and widely used. The cause of the fatalities is the misusage of information, which is the sole responsibility of the user. Information should be given out freely. It is up to the individual to decide how to use the knowledge they have.

Fundamental civil liberties are as important in cyberspace as they are in traditional contexts. The right to speak and publish using a virtual pen has its roots in a long tradition. With the passage of the 1996 Telecommunications Act, American Congress has prepared to turn the Internet from one of the greatest resources of cultural, social, and scientific information into the online equivalent of a children's reading room. By invoking the overboard and vague term "indecent" as the standard by which electronic communication should be censored, American Congress has insured that information providers seeking to avoid criminal prosecution will close the gates on anything but the most tame information and discussions. The American First Amendment states that no laws shall be made towards an establishment of religion or prohibiting the freedom of speech or of press. The Act breaks the laws of the First Amendment and takes away this right.

If the internet does become censored, then the global community that resides amongst the pages of it will lose its power of democracy and will be once again broken down into a system of government and ruling just

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