Internet laws
Internet lawsInternet Laws
Who has that right to make them?
The Internet is an international network of interconnected computers. It is the outgrowth of what began in 1969 as a military program called "ARPANET," which was designed to enable computers operated by the military, defense contractors, and universities conducting defense-related research to communicate with one another by redundant channels even if some portions of the network were damaged in a war. While the ARPANET no longer exists, it provided an example for the development of a number of civilian networks that, eventually linking with each other, now enable tens of millions of people to communicate with one another and to access vast amounts of information from around the world. The Internet is "a unique and wholly new medium of worldwide human communication." The Internet wasn't started by just one man it was a collection of many men who worked for the government of the United States. They stumbled across something that was new to everyone�transporting information from one computer to another. This breakthrough in technology lead to the greatest invention known to man. However when the Internet was discovered it wasn't perfect. It was slow and it didn't seem to be that big of a deal, but steps were made in the right direction to perfect such a thing. Now days we have networks, modems, servers and much more to provide us easy, quick access to almost everything. However now days its gotten out of hand there are pedophiles who display child porn on the internet, there are companies that allow you to buy their product over the internet which can be then sold violating the patent and there are many more scenarios that need protecting. The government had to do something so it tried to create laws for such just such occasions.
Many laws that the Government tries to put on the Internet are not of the matter we would usually think. It's not for child porn or for anything like that, but instead one of the first laws placed on the Internet was the Reform Act. "This act was passed in the senate with only 5 dissenting cotes, making it unlawful, and punishable by a $250,000 to say "shit" online. Or, for that matter to say any of the other 7 dirty words prohibited in broadcast media." (Cyberspace Declaration of Independence) The article continues to speak of how this takes away the right to free speech, I disagree. The access to a file in which words of poor taste are displayed are granted but through a system of questions telling you of the material. As long as one answers the question of "Are you 18 years of age?" they completely remove themselves from becoming offended. Which is why the government set up the Reform act, which makes the user of the computer, specifying if they are above the age of...
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