The Internet, Pornography, And Children
Why should anyone be concerned about pornography on the Internet? After all,
this is a free country and everyone should have access to anything they
want, right? This position would be true if only adults used the Internet;
it can not be true when children also use the Internet. Most people would
agree that children should not have access to Internet sites that are
considered pornographic. Does that mean that children should not be allowed
Internet access or that the Internet should not have pornographic sites? Of
course it doesn’t mean that! What it does mean is that the issues arising
from the mixture of children and Internet should be dealt with and not
ignored.
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computers used to transmit all types of data between computers.
Text, numbers, programs, illustrations, photographs, audio, animation, and
video can all be transmitted over the Internet. Contrary to what some
people may think, the Internet is not a single computer nor is it a single
service. The Internet is not owned by or governed by anyone. It exists
solely through the support of the companies and institutions that access it.
Though the Internet seems relatively new, its roots actually start in the
1960s. In 1969, the Department of Defense started the “ARPANET” project.
ARPANET was a decentralized computer network that was used to link military
researchers at four universities. The Internet later evolved out of ARPANET.
Funding from the National Science Foundation in the 1980s eventually led to
the Internet being opened to commercial traffic.
Services provided over the Internet include the World Wide Web, electronic
mail (the most popular service), Newsgroups, and Chat. For ...
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to access the Internet. Some of the risks include the following:
1. Exposure to material that is sexual, hateful, or violent in nature
and the possible encouragement of illegal or dangerous activities.
2. The safety of a child and/or a child’s family could be compromised
by the child providing information or arranging to meet a person they have
met over the Internet.
3. A child could be exposed , through e-mail or chat/bulletin board
messages, to disturbing, demeaning, or aggressive material.
4. Legal issues resulting from a child using a parent’s credit card or
violating another person’s rights.5
Children’s access to pornography on the Internet (risk #1) is a concern of
a lot of ...
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