The court decided that the act doesn't violate the First Amendment because any individual may request that the filter be disabled at any time. ... Perhaps a student is doing research on the reproductive process of humans; I can guarantee that the student will not be able to find a single resource while the software is filtering out sexual and supposed pornographic content. If the student were to do a project on drugs, hate crimes, death rates, or anything else even semi-controversial the filtering software would take precedence and shut down the browser. As a matter of fact the computers...

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You might ask, sure, there are those out there for profit, but what about the college student who was just doing it for fun? ... Unfortunately, inept use of the network can leave the firewall inactive or disabled, and once a hacker gets past, he can create hidden ways for himself to access again even if the firewall is restored. ...

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On November 1, 1988, a malicious program called the "Internet Worm" temporarily disabled many Internet host. ... Marc Andreesen and a group of student programmers later developed the first graphical browser for the World Wide Web called Mosaic. ...

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