Law, Policy And Technological Developments In The Cyber Security Landscape In Year 1996

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was significant that as libraries in all exist to preserve society's cultural artifacts and history as a whole, with the archiving, interenet was accepted as part of it. The Archive triggered a new wave of various initiatives to store information once uploaded to the web, to the extent that as of now we can assume most of our publicized information remains available even after it has fulfilled it's purpose and revoked. This brings us to another issue that started to make fuss during the same period of time. Governments as well as other internet users sarted to realize the overall positive and harmless image of internet to be an illusion and were forced to implement control mechanisms to regulate the material published online.

Communications Decency Act of 1996(*link) attempted to regulate both indecency (when available to children) and obscenity in cyberspace. Section 230 of the Act has been interpreted to say that operators of Internet services are not to be construed as ...

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