The Internet And The Internet

An increase in Internet maturity, correlates with an increase in real per capita GDP on average of $500. Looking back to the Industrial Revolution, it’s growth took 50 years to achieve these same results. This demonstrates both the magnitude and impact the internet delivers to all levels of society. In the French Economy, the internet had reported to have destroyed 500,000 jobs over the past 15 years, but has also over those same amounts of years has created 1.2 million new ones. For every job the internet has taken away, it’s created twice the amount. It’s safe to the internet has been able to increase the worlds GDP bringing great growth to the

" The United States government has a responsibility to ensure that every American has access to an internet that has a freedom of information. The internet has become a necessity in our everyday lives. School age Americans use the internet for research projects and even to submit homework. A vast majority of working-age Americans use the internet for the jobs or are involved in producing the inputs necessary to advance technology and keeping the current technology infrastructure working. The U.S. government has a limited duty in monitoring internet content. The government should have the ability to protect Americans from cyber acts and personal information theft. Currently the Federal Trade Commission has the power to regulate the internet

"To what extent does the Government have the duty to monitor the internet? The Internet is a global computer network providing a variety of information and communication facilities, consisting of interconnected networks using standardized communication protocols. The Government should have control of the internet depending on the situation.

1) I am writing this essay because I am a huge advocate of a free internet. The internet should not be able to be monitored by the US government or anyone else. In this essay, I plan to inform the reader on what the US is trying to do to the free internet.

The government believes certain things should be censored and perhaps paid for in order to be used by everyone. Many disagree with this and say that their freedom of speech rights are somewhat violated. In Regulation and Technology, Falzone says, “The government has a role to play. It needs to protect the public good by keeping the structure open and preserving the ability of new participants to use the network in new and unforeseen ways.” Basically the internet has standards to maintain and they want them to be protected at all

Siochrú, S. O., Burch, S., Girard, B., Gurstein, M., & Hill, R. (2014). Why global Internet governance must

Few even knew what a search engine was, for example, or had used Instant Messaging or viewed a video online. All this happened because the internet has not been subject to slow, cumbersome regulatory processes of government. Inserting government into questions around network management and the evolution of the Internet[s] underlying technologies and applications will simply erode the cooperative spirit that has driven its evolution, substituting instead fillings, charges, and countercharges.” (Farber, 36, 2009). This, the general idea of the article written by David Farber as written by Farber is trying to convey to the reader that the internet has developed into an unbiased network available to all on its own, it has not needed any government intervention to get it to where it is now. With what the government is trying to do with it will only deter from the “cooperative spirit” that has brought it to its current state. Through the use of such examples as the Telecommunications Act of 1996, and the FCC regulations, Farber conveys the notion on how the internet does not respond well to external regulations, likewise how further development would be halted by government interference. What Farber sticks to, unlike van Schewick, is the consumer side of regulation, while the other sticks to corporate side. The idea of consumer power and influence is talked about

There are many fundamental infrastructures in America that we rely on day to day. When I hear the word infrastructure, the first thing that comes to mind are networks of transportation such as roads, bridges, highways, rails, and airports. But infrastructure is so much more. From the water infrastructure that provides a clean supply of water as well as the removal of water waste, to the generation and distribution of power infrastructure, or even gas for those who need to heat their homes and cook on stoves. All of these have their respective purposes and functions in society, but the focus of this is going to be on the telecommunications infrastructure. The internet is a powerful system and infrastructure that many people and their technology depend on. Even many other infrastructures have the internet woven into its core in order to effectively operate. Tim Berners-Lee, the creator of the world wide web, once said, “I myself feel that it is very important that my ISP supplies internet to my house like the water company supplies water to my house. It supplies connectivity with no strings attached.” Sadly, connectivity to the telecommunications infrastructure is showing symptoms of splintering urbanism in many American cities.

The Internet is used by millions everyday. With so many people using one open platform, a question arises. Should the government regulate or leave it to the people? Both sides are supported by millions. The answer is simple, the Internet should be regulated due to user security, net neutrality, and data collecting.

"Historians often choose technology as the defining characteristic of a civilization; early civilization transitioned from the stone age, to the bronze age, and finally the iron age – adjectives describing the material of tools and weaponry at their respective time. Today, humanity is living inside the information or digital age, and modern society is increasingly more defined by the digital magnificence of the internet. Society’s heavy reliance on the internet has led to fiery debates on the role of federal, state, and local legislation in regulation the internet. Keeping in line with the government’s duty of representing the people and upholding their rights, every level of government – especially inferior levels if the federal government fails – must ensure that all internet data is readily available to everyone and regulate those bodies which attempt to

Government power is increasing on the Internet. There is more government surveillance than ever before. There is more government censorship than ever before. There is more government propaganda, and an increasing number of governments are controlling what their users can and cannot do on the Internet. Totalitarian governments are embracing a growing “cyber sovereignty” movement to further consolidate their power. And the cyberwar arms race is on, pumping an enormous amount of money into cyber-weapons and consolidated cyber-defenses, further increasing government power.

"In today’s society, many advances in technology have taken into effect, affecting almost every person in the world. One popular advance in technology is the invention and mass use of the Internet. Currently, more than three billion people are using the Internet on a daily basis for either personal and business usages. The Internet, today, allows users to transfer large amounts of information across great distances in a fraction of a second. The information that they transfer into the Internet can range from educational, businesses, political, entertainment, social networking, to world security purposes. Because the Internet has become the primary source of communication in our society, the government feels obligated to control the contents of information distributed throughout the interweb. The question is to what extent in the U.S. should the government be able to monitor internet content.

"The government should have minimal interference with the internet, but complete neutrality would eventually become harmful. The internet is primarily a place for communication. As such, it does indeed make sense that the government should not interfere. However, the internet has evolved beyond communication and has grown into forms of business. The internet has become a setting like those of the physical world, with differences, of course.

Vinton Cerf, chief internet evangelist of the aforementioned giant, Google, is an advocate of an open and free internet that is not limited by any standard of censorship, restriction, and regulation, whether it is domestic or international. Cerf, an early proponent of the internet in its dawning days, believes that the internet has been “powered by the people” and that the early “organic” blossoming of the web was due to a lack of restrictions imposed by governments during its inception (Cerf). Google believes that it would be shameful to suggest any form of change to this method of internet policy. Additionally, Google believes that the internet has flourished as an integral piece of the world’s economy that has become essential to its users (Cerf). The internet has, in other words, become a necessary and irreplaceable force of economic and communicative

The Internet is constantly developing. From four computers back in the early 70 's to an uncountable number today, the Internet has extreme power and has changed the world. In recent years, Internet growth has been expanding more rapidly than the government can understand. The laws and regulations of a month ago are no longer useful today. The government either has to move quicker in deciding outcomes pertaining to the Internet or has to give up control entirely. Businesses are making large technological advances that involve the Internet and are being held up by government decisions. Commercialization of the Internet brings in new technologies that are essential to growth.