The Information Super Highway
A small boy climbs onto his chair and starts his computer as if it were his gateway to a New World. The computer is up and running and the boy carefully moves his mouse around as if it were attached to his hand. He clicks on a highlighted link and a naked woman appears on his screen. The boy quickly turns around but he is alone. Engrossed in this picture with no one to scold him, he finds a new area of the Internet. He continues to navigate through this page of nude women and hears a noise. His mother opens the door to his room but it's too late, the navigation window has already been closed and mom has no idea what her little child had been looking at. With a world of information and no way to monitor it, the Internet makes life informative as well as interesting limited only by each click of the mouse. The Internet is difficult to limit because the devices used today are not capable of monitoring such a vast new medium.Any new medium must go through investigation and must be explored to see the full potential and how it affects society. In the 1940's radio emerged as a strong medium, allowing thousands to hear news, entertainment, and even propaganda. Radio was new and was therefore fo
Rowe, Chip. (1995, Jul. 5) Censorship glossary. Playboy, p. 48. These machines and programs prove to be too sensitive to restrict inappropriate material, so we are forced to turn towards our own human skills. Online services that provide chat rooms have turned to using human monitors to help with the task of controlling inappropriate material. "On popular services [like] America Online, volunteers are recruited to discourage members from using language deemed to be 'vulgar, abusive or hateful" (Rowe 48). These monitors are not paid and volunteer their free time by monitoring rooms for inappropriate language, pornography, and other illegal activities. The monitors have the power to boot a person offline and report their violation to top members. Punishments usually consist of a cancelled. bypass the program and find backdoors to adult sites, as well as find access to use-groups that house and display pornography (Rogers). The testers are important because they are The programs used to try to restrict the Internet are too basic because they cannot restrict inappropriate links located on legitimate pages. Reviews of Cyber Patrol have stated that the software is far from foolproof: The testers of the software were able to
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Approximate Pages = 11 (250 words per page double spaced)
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