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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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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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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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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• Grade Level: Undergraduate