By the second year of its operation however, APRANET's users had warped the high cost, computer sharing network into a dedicated, high-speed, federally subsidized electronic post office. ... The user is free to browse or transfer information with others. Most ISP's even allow their users to set up permanent homepages on the ISP's computer for the whole internet community to view. ... Some users wish to display "objectionable" material on their homepages. ... Average users can also set up homepages on ISP's. ...

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If more people are accessing the Internet, then who will govern the data that is transferred to the user community? ... Utilizing different software packages that block certain activity on a computer can do this. ... The user simply enters their destination like they would in a normal browser. The myShield servers act as filters between its users and the World Wide Web" (Coventry, 2002). ... So the next time you are using the computer and think your along, you may want to think about who is monitoring your actions on your own personal computer through the information highway called the Inte...

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The Internet provides three major services to its users: E-mail, Usenet News and the World Wide Web (WWW). ... It is a method by which Internet users publish generally public information on Internet-connected computers. ... Time portrayed the pornography on the Internet as something that is so common that the user could not go anywhere without finding these pictures. ... Install and run SurfWatch in five minutes Ñ even if youre a computer novice. ... Computer networks have special qualities of their own that ...

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Even if they do, the material can still be sampled before users enter into the site. ... Another problem that arises is the fact that not all Internet sites can quantifiably prove that the user wishing to browse their domain is of legal age. An annoy-mailer can be used to hide the identity of the user. ... After the program finds the site obscene, it will not let the user view the materials. ... Sites will be censored by a certain code that is relayed to the computer when the Internet navigator tries to enter the site. ...

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A social and ethical essay task designed to provide students with a broader insight into both the Internet and computer ethics. ... The answer to this question can be found on the screen of every computer in the world. ... What is the use of placing fines for copying pornography when it is impossible to tell the age of the user. How can one even trace the user when there are twenty-five billion members and it is impossible to follow them all. ... This is the responsibility of not only the governing committee, but also the user. ...

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This allows users to communicate with one another wherever they are in thenet." ... There were over nine thousand public libraries across America in 1997, sixty percent of these offered on-line access to its users (7). ... Porterfield stated that a study conducted in 1997 by Gateway 2000, a leading computer manufacturer, concluded that most children Internet access and computer skills typically commence with their school work. ... Internet Live reported that almost half of the Internet users they had questioned lied occasionally while on-line and ten percent were untruthful fifty percent of th...

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As stated by John Carr in the article Its Time to Tackle Cyber Porn, "the days are over when the internet was the private preserve of academics and computer geeks." ... Furthermore, internet users should not have to worry if the internet is a safe place for their viewing. ... The internet has now become our main way of communicating, and it needs to be censored for the safety of its users. ...

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As long as the acts are done or sites visited are not illegal, many adults acknowledge that this type of use is the user's own business, even if it is somewhat distasteful to some. However, what if the user is not an adult visiting these sites? ... In an article published in the "Time Magazine" written by Philip Emler-Dewitt titled "Censoring Cyberspace: Carnegie Mellon's attempt to Ban Sex from its Campus Computer Network Sends A Chill Along the Info Highway" stated, "Martin Rim put together quite a large picture collection (917,410 images) and he also tracked how often each i...

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"It become a felony with a potential 5 years sentence to stream a copyrighted work that would cost more than $2,500 to license, even if you are a totally noncommercial user, e.g. singing a pop song on Facebook" (Freele). ... And now, you will be sentenced for your crime which you can't really deny because it was on the internet and seen by all these other users" (Freele). ... In 1996 the American government was doing research on Child Pornography Act which banned computer generated Pornography images and later on command the supreme court to shut down provision of the CPP...

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Lots of the children nowadays are just tuned loose with a computer and not checked on until suppertime or bedtime. ... Later on the little girl finds out the person on the other end of the computer is an older man. ... The Internet also has infinite knowledge paths waiting to be blazed by a curious user. ... The computer skill level by some of the children of today far exceeds the level of their parents. ...

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Lots of the children nowadays are just tuned loose with a computer and not checked on until suppertime or bedtime. ... Later on the little girl finds out the person on the other end of the computer is an older man. ... The Internet also has infinite knowledge paths waiting to be blazed by a curious user. ... The computer skill level by some of the children of today far exceeds the level of their parents. ...

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Justice Stevens in his opinion evaluated the operation of the Internet and saw how difficult verifying the age of an Internet user would be; making it almost impossible to insure everyone who did see the explicit material would be over eighteen. ... The Act failed to clearly define "indecent" communications, it did not allow parents to authorize their children to access the restricted material, it did not show in any way that the transition of "offensive" material would actually be unpleasant in any social value, and finally Justice Stevens as well as the other judges agree...

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He would wait until I fell asleep at night and look at it on his phone, tablet, or computer. ... It got to the point where I was constantly checking his phone, tablet, and computer. ... These users are often in relationships. ...

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The Division I was assigned too had installed the software Windows NT too better monitor what users were viewing. Administrators were assigned to monitor computer usage of the internet and websites service members were using and also blocking those that were not in the interests of the division. ... They monitor email that enters their system by using software that that records information and or activity on a computer and then sends the information to the person or company that installed it. ...

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The reasons as to why people use porn is a complicated question that can be assessed in many ways and before one can answer this question, one needs to ask what porn is and who its users are. ... I would speculate that this is due to the fact that both middle and working classes have easier access to porn, especially at work, where many of them have computers. ...

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