The Internet: a Clear and Present Danger

The internet offers material to a child that is important to their education and upbringing, and it provides them with promise and hope in this new age of technology. It is also a source of concern; the internet provides children with the vulnerability of exposure to sexually explicit materials. This essay will cover the ways in which the exposure to sexually explicit content can corrupt the future generation of children, in which ways in can influence their future and future decisions, and how the ‘pornification’ of society is damaging the children. Searching for pornographic material or sexual content is as easy as searching the word sex into any search bar, where it will come along with videos, photos, or even chatrooms.

Just as we have laws against dumping garbage on the interstate, we ought to have similar laws for the information superhighway"[3]. The content that individuals can post on the Internet should be filtered and monitored to protect our children which make people feel uncomfortable. The dispute against this claim is that it takes away from the rights of adults which was concluded by the federal courts that "it violates the free speech rights of adults by broadly prohibiting the knowing transmission of 'indecent' messages to minors and displaying 'patently offensive' sexually explicit images in a manner available to children"[4]. Some believed that restricting the content on the Internet will be problematic because "it will only stifle the free flow of information, discourage the robust development of new information services and make users avoid using the system" and "Banning on-line anonymity would go much too far, stifling the 99 percent of legitimate speech in pursuit of the 1 percent of criminal speech"[5]. The controlling of content on the Internet will disrupt the flow of information which will discourage individuals to use the Internet and oppress content that is truthful and valid.

Finally, after reading this article, I think regulations should be created for the internet. Children today have more access to the internet than they did years ago. Parents have the obligation to educate their children about the dangers of the internet and to be cautious. However, it shouldn't be only the parent's responsibility, the government should take some responsibility also. Cleaver did a great job with her points. Her points were very persuasive and shocking; I am positive that she convinced her audience the day she gave this speech. Parents would do anything to protect their

The internet became a very popular and huge way of getting millions of different kinds of materials and information for everyday use in the later 80's early 90's. It became easy for anyone to access millions of different kinds of materials ninety nine percent of which is decent according to our governments standards and one or less percent which is considered to be material the is indecent or harmful to minors.(ABC) These facts maybe deceiving however because there are millions of internet sites so the internet may only be one percent indecent but that means there are thousands upon thousands of sites that are indecent.(ABC) The biggest question is how can we protect our children from these indecent sites? The government believed that

Did you check your Facebook today? How about your E-Mail? If not, you may be missing something even now! In today’s fast-paced world of instant information, if you aren’t on the internet, you’re almost certainly uninformed. Networks and the internet make up an alarmingly large part of our life. We get our news (both personal and public) via the internet, we talk to friends, shop for things, pay our bills… but how vast is the monster that does all of this? This question, along with many others, is essential in the debate that rages on today: censoring the net. There are governments, not excluding our own, who believe in to some extent controlling who can access certain websites, and which are available to the general public. The very idea

The government has been monitoring and regulating an every day’s persons website history and what we buy and look at on the Internet. With the Internet growing rapidly and the amount of users on the Internet increasing, the easier it is for the government to find out peoples’ interests. Many people argue whether or not we should have vigorous rules and regulations when it comes to the Internet. One of the main concerns people have when it comes to their Internet is their privacy. There are many people who want to do harm using the tools that the Internet provides us with. The Internet should be regulated but not as harsh as some

" 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

The internet is changing our brain for the worse. While we get to communicate with each other better and have a lot of information at our fingertips, we lose many important things as well. We are quick to congratulate the success of Google and Apple that we miss the real danger. Nicholas Carr shows us how we aren't seeing the real danger of the internet and he tells us what we are sacrificing for the internet. He explains to us how the internet is making us easily distracted, removes our ability to think linearly, and weakens our capability to learn.

Reading the book “The Dark Net” by Jamie Bartlett, I was capable of reaching to the midpoint of the book. On pages 115-183 Jamie Bartlett describes the awful details that accord on the internet, and how many internet users are not aware of it. On pages 115-134 he describes how pornography has became more accessible for many people on the internet. Many internet users ages 20 and older visit, or manage to click on pop-up links that lead them to child/pornography websites. Bartlett had manages to make time and interview one of these website visitors Michael. Michael is in his fifties he is married and has a grown up daughter. As Bartlett described Michael had started to watch pornography occasionally in his twenties, but when it became a habit

The fact that people want the pornography still doesn’t stop the Internet from being under fire from concerned parents and politicians. What matters are the people’s rights. The freedom to read, and censorship fails to address issues of privacy and the freedom to use such services. The Internet is anonymous which makes it better for consumers as their reputations don’t suffer. However, minorities would suggest that because of this anonymity on the Internet, ages can't be monitored, which makes it hard to determine if illegal activities are taking place. It is worth mentioning that all sex sites on the Internet require proof of age by the use of credit cards. The sex sites are interested in

The modern day has evolved to one being heavily influenced by social media, a powerful platform for the public. As a result of that, it has become a platform for people to promote progressive ideas for society, as well has become a tool to promote hate. The United States government has a duty to regulate the internet as it potentially could be a tool for illegal activity and has proven to be a harmful tool if used maliciously, but to what extent is too much regulation? The duty of the US government to regulate the internet is one to ensure safety, but not one to violate the civil liberties and rights the country was originally built on.

The roots of the debate, as Milligan believes at least, can be traced to a TIME exposé in July of 1995, where the article cover of a boy stunned by images of cyberporn on his computer, set the tone for a debate that would last for years. While it would later be revealed that both this article, as well as others, were fundamentally flawed, they were still quite effective when it came to making parents panic about what their children might see over the internet. And, this brings us to what Milligan offers as the defining moment for the pro-regulation campaign: parents vying to protect their children.

Regulation of the Internet is a volatile topic. One reason comes from the very nature of the Internet.  While not entirely different from

The Internet is a global network of vast information. With a few clicks, an individual can have access to up to 200 million web-sites filled with educational and recreational information. The Internet is not regulated in anyway (Carnegie Library 1). It is accessible throughout the entire world from the North to the South, to the early morning sunrise and dark sunsets. Different ethnicity and backgrounds come together linked upon this network resembling a connection of one body in unity. Sadly, issues arise creating concern for users, focusing particularly on minors. Pornography is one of the inappropriate materials on the Internet for minors. This material is harmful to young impressionable minds. Pornography is tearing and

These days the internet has become an essential part to living for almost everyone but one of the controversial topics that people bring up is that whether or not the government should regulate information on the internet. Both sides have valid points which form a reasonable argument. Some people would say that they need to because of the dangers lurking around in the cyber world but the reasons for why the government shouldn’t regulate the Internet outnumber the reasons for why they should. The federal government should not regulate or censor information on the internet because doing so violates the first amendment and citizen’s right to privacy, degrades the educational value of the web, prevents the promotion and facilitation of