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

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.

The Internet acts as an ideal forum for free speech. It allows ideas and structures of cultures to be challenged and compared by everyone, by arming people with information that allows then to challenge ideas fed to them by their surrounding physical society. It has created a cyber-society that has possibly represented democracy more than any other social structure. But this ideal cyber-world of democracy would collapse in a moment if any party had the power to censor the information contained within its pages.

g food & products, paying bills, reading newspapers, and so on, the internet offers a world of information available at the users fingertips. It is an elaborate source of education, information, entertainment, and communication. Users are able to access people and information, distribute information, and experiment with new technologies and services. The Internet has become a major global infrastructure used for education, research, professional learning, public service, and business.

Again, the Internet is so vast that it can't be policed. It is said that if one person sits at a computer 24 hours each day they will never be able to cover all the information on the web because it continues to grow at an enormous rate. Hence, the only people that can be responsible for data integrity is each individu

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