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The Internet is one of the technologies that are widely used in the world. It is also one of the most controversial technologies. The government wants to put some regulations on the Internet. These regulations mainly consist of the censorship of it. These regulations are lead by the Communications Decency Act. This censorship causes a lot of problems to its users. People are arguing that all this censoring would run people away from it. Other people believe that censorship has been needed to control all the indecent material that reaches the eyes of minors. The Internet first came into being in the military. It was first known as the ARPANET (ARPA stands for the Advanced Research Projects Agency). There were many universities, corporations, and governmental agencies using the ARPANET by the 1980's. The ARPANET died out by 1989 and what was left from that is what we know now as the Internet. Today there are over 40 million people connected to the Internet and an expected 200 million to be connected by the end of the century. The Internet is being censored by a few regulations. The one that sticks out the most is the Communications Decency Act (CDA) which is part of the Telecommunications of 1996.
blocked, but if he does not rate his site it will be still blocked though" (Nadine Strossen). Internet censorship is a way for the government to control the things that we do. It the way of the government saying that we are not responsible enough to handle things on our own. "The Telecommunications Act pushes aside the parents who accept the responsibility of monitoring their The CDA also makes it harder to cruise around on the Internet. No more just typing in the web site that you want to visit and hitting enter. If that site that you would like to see has something, which is considered indecent, people would have to obtain a PIN number and/or a credit card number. This also will chase people away from using the Internet. Many people do not want to take the chance of sending their credit card number over the Internet or going through all the trouble of getting a PIN number. They also would not like to have to type it in every time they go to a different web site.
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Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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