Internet Censorship
"Welcome... You've got mail." These are the words that so many people around the world have become accustom to day in and day out. In seconds you can be transported into a world filled with billions of sites with information. Sites that help people with every thing you can think of, from sites to help you find where to buy hard cover books for less than paperback prices, to where to where to find a good dentist. Over 800 million people worldwide own a computer and over 400 million people use the Internet. 100 million of these people use the Internet for at least an hour a day. Every day more and more people connect to the Internet in search for an endless array of information. So many people depend on the Internet not only for recreational reasons but also for economical reasons. Many people can stay home and do there work right over the Internet. You can get mail, check your stocks on Wall Street, and even go to school over the Internet. Needless to say, whether we like it or not, the Internet is rapidly becoming a way of life in the world as we know it today. But with all good the advances of the Internet has done for the society there is much controversy over what information, so to speak, that people should be allowed to
In the year of 1997 the issue of Internet censorship was tried in the in the halls of the Supreme Court Justice. Attorney General Reno made a proposal to pass a Communications Decency Act. A proposal that would make it mandatory for people who want to access pornographic sites to give up privacy by showing proof of there age with certain designated forms of identification. A verified credit card or an age identification number, and also law that would it make it just to criminally charge a person knowingly sending or displaying to a person under 18 any message or image that is obscene or patently offensive. In an effort to "protect the fragile mind of a child". There are other Internet "Freedom Fighters" that the call for a medium in Internet censorship. Calling for the freedom of speech, but also with some sort of a moral responsibility in exercising this right. They fear that the rights are being abused.
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Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)
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