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- 1281: Hate on the Net
- ... banned. Opponents to this idea appeared in a chat room that I visited while in research. They challenged that words can harm people, even kill them. This sounds convincing if you consider that acts of violence are often preceded by abusive or threatening language. However, this is missing the point. The fact of the matter is that it is still not the words that are harming you, it is the people ...
- 1282: Society and Technology
- ... just creating new inventions than there were in the past, making most think that they have become more civilized. But our nature has not become more civilized. There are still wars, hatred, and acts of violence. Maybe it is more important to grow in this area than the other. So in reality, we are not as civilized as we think.
- 1283: Porn on the Internet
- Porn on the Internet Many mothers do not want their children to experience drugs, violence, illness, or sex. In our society where these are readily available, mothers need to be especially cautious of what their children encounter. Another reason for why mothers need to keep an extra eye open is ...
- 1284: Technology and the Future of Work
- ... is whether consumerism will continue unabated, whether it is a normal human condition to see happiness and salvation in the acquisition of goods and services. The word "consumption" until the present century was steeped in violence. In its original form the term, which has both French and English roots, meant to subdue, to destroy, to pillage. Compared with the mid 1940s the average American is consuming twice as much now. The ...
- 1285: William Gibson and The Internet
- ... life. The only real commodity is information. The bleak, 'no future' landscape of punk rock and post-apocalyptic movies like Blade runner and Mad Max, and imagined a way to escape from the street-level violence these films referred to. Along with Neuromancer, Blade Runner together set the boundary conditions for emerging Cyberpunk: a hard-boiled combination of high tech and low life. As the William Gibson phrase puts it, "The ...
- 1286: The V-Chip
- ... government. Yet in the space provided for this essay, the focus will be the technical aspects and costs of the new chip. It is impossible to generally assume that the V-chip will solve the violence problem of broadcast television or that adding this little device to every set will be a first amendment infringement. We can, however, find clues through examining the cold facts of broadcast television and the impact ...
- 1287: Computers in Education
- ... Given an imaginative programmer, a sophisticated video game has the potential for offering an almost limitless array of exotic worlds and fantastic situations. In the early 90s parents and government were becoming increasingly aware of violence in video games so they introduced warnings on the box like in the movies.
- 1288: The Computer Underground
- ... or to use multiple handles. Handles are borrowed liberally from the anti-heros of science fiction, adventure fantasy, and heavy metal rock lyrics, particularly among younger users, and from word plays on technology, nihilism, and violence. The CU handle reflects a stylistic identity heavily influenced by meta- phors reflecting color (especially red and black), supernatural power (e.g., "Ultimate Warrior, "Dragon Lord"), and chaos ("Death Stalker," "Black Avenger"), or ironic twists ...
- 1289: The vast cyber-frontier is being threatend with censorship from the government
- ... denies access to sites such as Hustler automatically, it also restrains newsgroups with words like "porno", "xxx", or "sex" in their topic.36 Microsystems Software's CyberPatrol program filters 12 content subjects such as sex, violence, and hate speech, then parents can add sites to a "CyberNet" list.37 Indecent material is protected by the First Amendment, much of the materials printed in America including articles from Cosmopolitan magazine or James ...
- 1290: Government Censorship would damage the atmosphere of the freedom to express ideas on the Internet; therefore, government should not encourage censorship
- ... it exists must be introduced. The problem that concerns most people is offensive material such as pornography. As pointed out by Allison and Baxter, "Possible (offensive) topics are behavior (drugs, ... ), nudity, political/economic/social opinion, violence, racial/ethnic, religious, coarse language, sexual/gender orientation, [and] sexuality" (Allison and Baxter 3). Since the Internet is open to everyone, children are very easily exposed to such material. According to Allison and Baxter, "the ...
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