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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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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NetNanny allows the user to customize the blocking capabilities of the program, but only if the parent cares enough and has enough time. ... The odds are slim, however, that a user would come across a sexually explicit site by accident (Quittner). ... An example of a parent's excuse for not watching what their children view is that they are working and cannot be home when the child uses the computer. ... A computer program called CyberPatrol allows the parent to set the time at which a child can access the Internet. ...

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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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These filters are pieces of software that sift through internet content and prevent questionable material from passing on to the user. ... The piece of software also prevents selected personal information from being transmitted from your computer. ... As a matter of fact the computers issued to students in this Digital Arts program here at Thompson Institute have a net filter installed on them. This very filter has made many students research difficult by filtering words such as: sex, hacker, games, manager, warez, and many other words which are important in computer ethic research. ...

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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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Not only has Facebook opened up a world of possibilities and allowed the user to interact with friends and people all over the world, it has opened up the darker side of users to cyber-bullying (Stout). ... Sexting is defined as "sending, receiving, or forwarding sexually explicit messages, photographs, or images via cell phone, computer, or other digital devices" (qtd. ... Sherry Turkle tells the reader that social media allows the user to be the person they want to be. ...

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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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