The need to curb children pornographic is one of the major factors that make governments regulating the use of the internet. The internet regulation is very critical to limit the exposure of children to pornographic content because governments believe that pornographic content is harmful to children.
However, extensive government regulations of the internet usage can still be challenging to implement. The rights of individual such as freedom of expression, and children rights are the major issues that could make the government to face challenges in regulating the internet. Essentially, internet is increasingly beneficial to both adults and children. While adults use the internet to transact business and make an effective communication, children use the internet at schools. Thus, extensive regulation could affect the right of both the adults and children to information.
Bottom-up approach to Internet Regulation
The impressive growth of the internet usage within the business and non-business environment necessitates the need to regulate the internet usage. However, there is a divergence of opinion on the appropriate strategy to regulate the internet usage. While some group support traditional top-down approach, some group support bottom-up regulatory approach. The bottom -- up approach is a regulatory system where the private sectors define the rules to regulate the internet usage. The present regulatory option is being determined by the bottom-up regulatory approach; however, the side effect of this approach is that one party could exploit the other party in the transaction. This paper believes that...
The private organizations might use the internet regulation to exploit consumer during transactions if leaving the internet regulation entirely to bottom-up system.
Value of ICANN and its impact on the Current Internet Worldwide.
The ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) is a private, non-profit organization established under the California state law in 1998, and ICANN has become an effective tool in the internet governance. Typically, ICANN manages the allocation of internet protocol address, and coordinates the unique IP address across the world to facilitate the internet coordination. The ICANN also assists in allocating unique identifiers to facilitate the identification of internet globally. Thus, ICANN has assisted in the deploying DNSSEC (Domain Name System Security Extensions) that facilitate safe and secured operation of internet globally.
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