internet censorship
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. The Co
children's use of computer services and places that responsibility in the federal government's hand" (Russell Wodell). Parents, not the government could and should choose what happens during their child's time on the Internet. All the censorship on it will pull down communication on the Internet to a child's level of maturity. mmunications Decency Act, which was enacted on February 8, 1996, it basically a law that criminalizes the Another reason while the Internet should not be banned is because it would cost more for companies to make web sites. One of the reasons computer networks were successful because of the low costs. "One of the primary reasons networks like the Internet have grown so fast as they have is the freedom from regulation" (Solvieg Bernstein). (Computer equipment manufactures and designers were never burdened with any regulations. Competition was fierce and it forces prices down helping it grow faster. Now with the CDA is action there is a little change. It is no affordable way for low-profit speakers and non-profit companies to restrict access to a broad defined category of material that might be categorized as indecent. "This bans speech on the Internet for some people and therefore the CDA is unconstitutional."(Solveig Bernstein)
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Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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