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- 7731: Technological Literacy
- ... and the year leading up to the 1995 Fourth UN Conference on Women in Beijing, women have been active on-line alerting the west about issues including human rights violations, rape as widespread weapons of war and, in the case of the Beijing U.N. Conference, Chinese efforts to exclude Tibetan women. In short, the overwhelmingly male population of cyberspace, the distinctively gendered dimension of cyberculture discourse, the body-less and ...
- 7732: The Computer and Mass Communication
- ... serve a cathartic role, allowing the public to feel involved rather than to advance actual participation. Communities seem more likely to be formed or reinforced when action is needed, as when a country goes to war, rather than through discourse alone. Citizenship via cyberspace has not proven to be the panacea for the problems of democratic representation within any society; although communities of interest have been formed and strengthened and have ...
- 7733: Government Intervention of the Internet
- ... to all these pictures, and to the newsgroups where most of this obscenity is suspected to come from. A total of 80 newsgroups were removed, causing a large disturbance among the student body, the American Civil Liberties Union, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation, all of whom felt this was unconstitutional. After only half a week, the college had backed down, and restored the newsgroups. This is a tiny example of what ...
- 7734: Privacy and the Internet
- ... then the Constitutional right of peaceable assembly is violated. In addition to Constitutional rights, many states acknowledge another kind of privacy right, under both statute and case law. In New York for instance, New York Civil Rights law sections 50 and 51 explicitly recognize a right of privacy for New York state citizens. The law states that it is unlawful to use someone's "name,portrait, or picture" without consent for ...
- 7735: Cyberspace
- ... which gives them the obligation to restrict the materials available through it. Though it appears to have sprung up overnight, the inspiration of free-spirited hackers, it in fact was born in Defense Department Cold War projects of the 1950s.2 The United States Government owns the Internet and has the responsibility to determine who uses it and how itis used. The government must control what information is accessible from its ...
- 7736: Internet Regulation: Policing Cyberspace
- ... which gives them the obligation to restrict the materials available through it. Though it appears to have sprung up overnight, the inspiration of free-spirited hackers, it in fact was born in Defense Department Cold War projects of the 1950s.2 The United States Government owns the Internet and has the responsibility to determine who uses it and how it is used. The government must control what information is accessible from ...
- 7737: History of Computers
- ... use cathode ray tubes to store memory, which made memory I/O faster. The first computer that allowed real-time control was the Whirlwind. The Whirlwind was designed to trail fighter pilots for the cold war in Russia. The Whirlwind was originally designed to be an analog computer, but it was decided that it would be digital, due to the large amounts of memory that would be required to be stored ...
- 7738: Anti-government Censorship on the Internet
- ... safeguards is a reason that the CDA's claims are unfounded. Another huge factor against government censorship is that it would be next to impossible to stop. The Internet was brought about from the Clod War and is designed to continue communication after a nuclear attack. This means it was basically set up to be impossible to block. Also their is the question of different countries that are involved on the ...
- 7739: Censor the Internet?
- ... said that "Cyberspace is about protecting and enlarging freedom of expression for all our citizens
Ideas should not be checked at the border."(McCullagh) Another person attending that conference was Ann Breeson of the American Civil Liberties Union. She is quoted as saying, "Our big victory at Brussels was that we pressured them enough so that Al Gore in his keynote address made a big point of stressing the importance of ...
- 7740: Online Censorship
- ... all ) countries agree is objectionable. The vast majority of Internet use is for legitimate and indeed positive purposes. The effect of access and use of this global interactive medium has been to promote democracy and civil society worldwide. Mass media usually responds to economic and political interests of those who control the interest, and such controls do not presently exist on the Internet. In the United States, citizens are able to ...
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