During the past decade, our society has become based solely on the ability to move

large amounts of information across large distances quickly. Computerization has

influenced everyone's life. The natural evolution of computers and this need for

ultra-fast communications has caused a global network of interconnected computers

to develop. This global net allows a person to send E-mail across the world in mere

fractions of a second, and enables even the common person to access information

world-wide. With advances such as software that allows users with a sound card to

use the Internet as a carrier for long distance voice calls and video conferencing, this

network is key to the future of the knowledge society. At present, this net is the

epitome of the first amendment: free speech. It is a place where people can speak

their mind without being reprimanded for what they say, or how they choose to say it.

The key to the world-wide success of the Internet is its protection of free speech, not

only in America, but in other countries where free speech is not protected by a

constitution. To be found on the Internet is a huge collection of obscene grap

views of the real world. "When it comes to our children, censorship is a far less

protects most of their mail with envelopes. So no one draws suspicion by asserting

has imposed very strict laws on its exportation.

World Wide Web, have come from overseas. There is no clear boundary between

Encryption is a means of encoding data so that only someone with the proper

some of those nasty words in its pages, The New Yorker for instance, decided to

choosing to look at adult magazines." (Miller 75).

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