Internet laws
The Internet is an international network of interconnected computers. It is the outgrowth of what began in 1969 as a military program called "ARPANET," which was designed to enable computers operated by the military, defense contractors, and universities conducting defense-related research to communicate with one another by redundant channels even if some portions of the network were damaged in a war. While the ARPANET no longer exists, it provided an example for the development of a number of civilian networks that, eventually linking with each other, now enable tens of millions of people to communicate with one another and to access vast amounts of information from around the world. The Internet is "a unique and wholly new medium of worldwide human communication." The Internet wasn't started by just one man it was a collection of many men who worked for the government of the United States. They stumbled across something that was new to everyone...transporting information from one computer to another. This breakthrough in technology lead to the greatest invention known to man. However when the Internet was discovered it wasn't perfect. It was slow and it didn't seem to be th
Interconnected computers that enable millions of people to communicate with one another in "cyberspace" and to access vast amounts of information from around the world criminalizes the "knowing" transmission of "obscene or indecent" messages to any recipient under 18 years of age. Prohibits the "knowing" sending or displaying to a person under 18 of any message "that, in context, depicts or describes, in terms patently offensive as measured by contemporary community standards, sexual or excretory activities or organs." (lexis-nexis) Now these people that provide such sites are trying to say that it is a violation of their First Amendment Rights of freedom of speech. law that makes it a criminal offense to be However some laws don't have a very long shelf life for example, two state Internet laws were struck down because they were ruled unconstitutional. In New York and in Georgia two state laws that were to protect children on the Internet against pedophiles and prevent anonymous communication in cyberspace. it a crime to transmit pornographic material to minors over the Internet was a violation of a constitutional revision that bars states from intruding in peoples activities in other states. She added that only congress could legislate in this area." (Cowles/Simba media Daily) "U.S. District Judge Loretta Preska in New York ruled that a 1996 New York State law that made "Georgia could not enforce its recently enacted In the same kind of case U.S. District Judge Marvin Shoob in Atlanta ruled that:
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