On 31 December 2007, Stephen Conroy announced the Federal Government's intention to introduce an ISP-based filter to censor "inappropriate material" from the Internet (mainly child abuse and terrorism). In this announcement he also stated that adults could opt out of the filter to receive an uncensored internet. The filter itself is flawed, so is met with strong opposition. Banning illegal content like child abuse and terrorism is inarguably a good thing. I welcome it.
Cyber terrorists can be motivated to target organizations that will result in the radical’s group to cause the most harm and/or receive the most attention for their party. Cyberterrorists use the internet to spread propaganda and enlist new members and use DoS/DDoS attacks to cause disruption to companies that represent actions against their belief’s (Vacca & Rudolph, 2011). Cyber terrorists can also steal information to be used for self-serving strategic purposes. Kostadinov (2012) makes the distinction between cybercrime and cyberterrorism in that the latter should resemble terrorist attacks via traditional methods but perpetrated virtually. Kostadinov goes on to note that most cyberterrorism actions are generally focused on website sabotage and email blasting.
Big Brother on the Internet By definition, the act of censorship is the examination of any books, television program or internet for the sole purpose of suppressing content deemed inappropriate on moral or political grounds. Censorship threatens an individual’s right and ability to articulate themselves without restriction. However, censorship is an activity that the government practices daily as a mandate. There are many positive and negative aspects of censorship. Internet censorship may block harmful information that damages human society such as websites promoting hate and anti semitism.
1. Introduction Explain the issue you are examining and why it is significant. For our research proposal, our team wishes to examine the recent topic of a proposed bill by the U.S. government to censor the internet. The bill is called SOPA; which stands for Stop Online Piracy Act. This act would give the government the power to cut off certain websites from the web.
This paper will show how the internet allowed predators to prey on children and how child pornography changed. In addition it will show how the internet affected the lives of the victims, and how the law enforcement had to change to adapt to the internet. Before the internet, law enforcement had a pretty good handle on cracking down on child predators. Child predators were isolated and usually hunted by law enforcement. They had to stick to traditional means of obtaining and distributing their collection.
CENSORSHIP Eunice Siu 9-5 As the Charter of Rights and Freedom states each person has his or her own right to express their own thought, belief, opinion, and expression. Especially, on the Internet, a place where most people are anonymous. A problem that can cause the content to corrupt our minds even more than it already has, the harm can effect generations that follow. Cyber-bullies who post the messages that are on the Internet can cause hurt feelings. Thus, the Internet Service Provider(s) [ISP(s)] should make it mandatory for whatever is being posted to have filters, blocks on the content (censoring)- a better filter than we have right now because the main filtering is mainly for pictures (Example: porn).
It is one of the best things that have been brought to this town. Almost everyone I know in Hereford has an internet connection and they use it for the same reasons I do. The internet is a blessing in our lives because we are able to get a lot of important things done without having to travel. Would you be able to live a week without
xxxxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxxx xxxxxxx Popular Culture and Technology Popular culture is one of the most influential aspects of how humans behave and think. Today’s civilization is becoming more centered on technology and it is involved in almost everything we do. Popular culture, technology, and our behavior are all interdependent aspects of humanity with the way our society is evolving. The technology we have today that our popular culture is composed of has a positive effect on the human race. One of the newest and possibly most dominant pieces of popular culture that technology has produced is social networking.
Keep this in mind when you are faced with hurtful and hateful words. In the article Hate Speech on the Internet Should Be Regulated, Ronald Eissens believes that speech should be regulated on the Internet because “online hate speech does not aim to change the bigoted or extremist ideologies of individuals or restrict the freedom of expression, but deter[s] hate crimes” (Eissens, Web). Eissens also believes that the “Internet is the biggest information and communication device” and is being used to “recruit, disseminate and incite hatred” (Eissens, Web). Eissens “claims that hate groups use the Internet to spread their hateful messages and to threaten and target individuals and
Sometimes, government around the world use censorship for their own benefit. It stifles the opposition, broadcasting only a particular point of view. I feel that people have a right to know what’s actually going on rather than knowing only half of the truth. However, if there is a top secret in the particular country is being spread around in the internet; censorship might be useful for the government. Usually in the internet, sexual explicit content or media violence will be censored.