التصنيف: مادة اللغة الإنجليزية في التعليم المتوسط English middle school

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Most readers won’t be surprised to learn that two of the fastest selling products on the Internet are pornography and gambling. Advertisements for the latest on-line casino flood our mailboxes and newsgroups, and it’s difficult to browse too far on the web without finding a link the the latest "hot XX" site. The Internet is not always a nice place.
The response of the community has been mixed. Parents are naturally fearful of giving children unsupervised access to the Internet, for fear of what they’ll come across. Politicians are looking for "happy medium" solutions that satisfy the standards of the community, and yet do not restrict the Internet to the point of being unusable. Internet Service Providers are fearful of being made responsible for the material that people access using their facilities.
Another issue is the distribution of material that is completely illegal, no matter how old the viewer. Essentially, the problem seems to be one of keeping the Internet as unrestricted as possible, to maximize its potential, while ensuring that people are not given access to material that they wouldn’t be allowed to access elsewhere.
Several possible solutions exist. The most obvious and heavy-handed is legislative censorship: simply ban certain types of material. Of course, this raises moral and ethical issues of censorship itself, but there is another, more practical objection. The Internet spans the world; to be effective, a legislative solution would have to be adopted by every country with an Internet presence. Different countries have different standards, and reaching a meaningful legal consensus on what is and is not acceptable for the Internet is just not feasible.
The current solution is self-regulation, where the providers of adult-oriented products and services work to restrict access to their own material. There are several reasons why this is a better solution. Firstly, the content providers themselves are relatively eager to restrict access to their material, because it is in their own interests. The vast majority of such sites are physically situated in the United States, which has fairly strict laws governing the distribution of pornographic material to minors. Prosecution under these laws is relatively easy, if it can be demonstrated that access is unrestricted.
In practice, this sort of regulation seems to work fairly well, using a membership scheme that requires a password to access restricted material.
Another solution that is specifically oriented to parents is the use of filtering programs that restrict access from the user’s end. Parents can set up software such as "Net Nanny" ;and specifically set the sites that they wish to allow their children to access. Any attempts to access sites not on the "safe list" are simply blocked. This gives parents more control over the material their children view, and perhaps more peace of mind.
The Internet is not a safe place, in the same way that a knife is not safe. A knife has to be sharp to be useful, and the Internet needs to be relatively open and unrestricted to be useful. It is to be hoped that a culture of responsible usage will grow in the Internet community, to minimize the inherent dangers of such a powerful medium
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