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- 81: Freedom of Speech on the Internet
- ... that the Internet provides, specifically, the easy accessibility to websites that contain offensive or immoral material. When Congress began its quest of censoring one of the world’s fastest growing sources of information, the anti-censorship campaign began. This bitter argument has been debated, legislated, and written about extensively. Although the Internet contains content children should not view, censoring the entire or part of the Internet will infringe on the First ... Four years ago, Congress approved the Communications Decency Act (CDA), which was designed to protect children by prohibiting “indecent” speech or images from being sent through cyberspace. One of the biggest groups that combated the censorship law is the CIEC (Citizens Internet Empowerment Coalition). The CIEC found and posted on their website some obvious problems with the CDA. “This law would prohibit texts of classic fiction such as the Catcher in ... published in a newspaper, magazine, or a book, or in the public square”(CIEC). Hot-Wired, a very popular and prestigious Internet magazine, now famous for rallying one of the most infamous protests against Internet censorship, published an article describing the protest. “Within minutes of last Tuesday’s news that a House committee had voted to incorporate an “indecency” clause into the proposed telecom bill, a collective panic spread through ...
- 82: Harry Potter And Censorship
- ... are a sure target for many of the religious groups who support the censoring of children's literature. Words such as "good god, crap, hell, and Christ" are examples of the type which might face censorship. In actuality a child in an American society hears words such as these more frequently than they read them. At places like school lunchrooms and playgrounds the dialogue is often very hurtful and directed at ...
- 83: Censorship Online
- Censorship Online There is a section of the American populace that is slowly slithering into the spotlight after nearly two decades in clandestine. Armed with their odd netspeak, mouses, glowing monitors, and immediate access to a ...
- 84: Grapes Of Wrath - Censorship
- ... Without these individual beliefs of the "reds" and other people that showed either socialistic or anti-establishment messages, the reader would get a dry, unfulfilled perspective of the lives of people during the Great Depression. Censorship does have its place in society. There are many things that are too risqué, degrading, and should not be shown. Pornography, extreme sexual content, and extreme gratuitous violence does not have its place in literature ...
- 85: Censorship Of The Grapes Of Wr
- ... Without these individual beliefs of the "reds" and other people that showed either socialistic or anti-establishment messages, the reader would get a dry, unfulfilled perspective of the lives of people during the Great Depression. Censorship does have its place in society. There are many things that are too risqué, degrading, and should not be shown. Pornography, extreme sexual content, and extreme gratuitous violence does not have its place in literature ...
- 86: Lyrics
- In our society today, some musicians and their music drain and plague the moral and spiritual well-being of the people; therefore, censorship offers a necessary action that we must take to keep the world from becoming a land of decadence. The musicians lives are not examples for the children or the adults. The lyrics of many songs are not suitable for anyone. All types of music need some kind of censorship. Censorship makes a person realize that music is good for the heart. Censorship totally makes people act better, and when thinking better, this sustains a better society. The lives of some musicians contain types of ...
- 87: The Information Super Highway
- ... that were not to be expressed, and information that was only for certain individuals. Both radio and television underwent heavy investigation on how they were to broadcast. With the rise of the Internet, a new censorship era has emerged. There have been many attempts to restrict content on the Internet but nothing can be done to completely guarantee that questionable materials will not be seen. Many different methods have been tried ... PC owner; 2. software that looks for suspect words to decide when to block sites; and 3. The fencing off of portions of the Internet by firms that provide Internet access” (The Top Shelf: Internet Censorship). The protection software is completely unreliable because it judges material on what has been listed as profane in the past. Software that consults a list of known sites will not work because it takes a ... not. They can restrict, or they can not. Machines have no sense of morality or judgement. They only do what they are told. No artificial intelligence is perfect. These devices have been compared to similar censorship devices used to prevent pornography on television: One version of this net blocking software would block twenty thousand web sites and another would allow access to only three thousand (Buckley). Since the programs rely ...
- 88: Government Intervention on the Internet
- ... these have sparked great debates within our nation's government. This paper will attempt to focus on two high profile ethical aspects concerning the Internet and its usage. These subjects are Internet privacy and Internet censorship. At the moment, the Internet is epitome of our first amendment, free speech. It is a place where a person can speak their mind without being reprimanded for what they say or how they choose ... a broadcast medium, where the government monitors what is broadcast? The problem we are facing today is that the Internet can be all or none of the above depending on how it is used. Internet censorship, what does it mean? Is it possible to censor amounts of information that are all alone unimaginable? The Internet was originally designed to "find a way around" in case of broken communications lines, and it seems that explicit material keeps finding its "way around" too. I am opposed to such content on the Internet and therefore am a firm believer in Internet censorship. However, the question at hand is just how much censorship the government impose. Because the Internet has become the largest source of information in the world, legislative safeguards are indeed imminent. Explicit material is ...
- 89: Censorship In Mark Twains Nove
- "The author of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is Samuel Langhorn Clemens, who is more commonly known by his pen name, Mark Twain."(Lyttle pg.16) He was born in 1835 and died in 1910. Ever since ...
- 90: Sex in the Net!
- ... ten years, who have an unlimited supply of pornography. They have been exposed to it from an early age and it has become an addiction like smoking or drinking. Part of the problem is that censorship laws are not enforced. Some newsagents will sell a twelve year old, pornography, (legal age of 18) but will not sell them a packet of cigarettes (legal age of 16 until June 1994). The obvious ... five billion members and it is impossible to follow them all. How can we delete the pornography when a new batch arrives every day and it is impossible to stop it. Another point which makes censorship difficult is the fact that censorship laws have only recently being required. In England for instance, censorship laws have, for hundreds of years, concentrated on heretic materials, where as now, they are finding that the only offence censorship is needed ...
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