Regulating The Internet: Who's In Charge

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internet is surrounded by questions of its usage.
The intemet was named the global village by McLuhan and Fiore in 1968, but
recently the internet has been more properly renamed the global metropolis.
Robert Fortner defines the internet as a place where people from all different
cultures and backgrounds come together to share ideas and information.
"Communication in a metropolis also reflects the ethnic, racial, and sexual
inequalities that exist generally in the society. '' (Fortner, p25)
When a person enters into a global metropolis to engage in communication
they do not know who they will interact with nor do they know what information
that they may come across. Which brings an important question to mind. If this
is a community, a global metropolis, should it not be governed to protect the
members of the community? But more importantly, can a community that knows no
boundaries and belongs to no country, be regulated? And who can or should
regulate it?
With the ...

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is the
internet transmitting pornography. Individuals and companies do upload and
download pomography. It ranges from pictures of nude men and women to child
pornography.
Many schools have adopted the idea of bringing computers into the classrooms.

"In the classroom, where youngsters are being introduced to the machines as
early as kindergarten, they astound-and often outpace-their teachers with their
computer skills." (Golden, 219) Educating students about computer literacy is an
important aspect for the upcoming generation. Computer literacy will become just
as important for people to understand as reading, writing and arithmetic are.
With this increased ability at such ...

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