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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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Internet Security Measures- An Assessment The world of the Internet is truly an amazing and wonderful place where any information on any topic is available, right at your fingertips, with the mere click of a button. The Internet is very much like a huge city where high rises filled with honest people and slums filled with the lower classes coexist side by side; where there are both good people as well
Internet Tax The issue of an Internet sales tax has been at the topic of much debate over the past few years. The issue is a complicated one and the budget crises' facing many states has made it a crucial one. The purpose of this discussion is to examine Internet tax legislation. We will begin by exploring the current status of Texas legislation regarding internet Taxation. We will also investigate the
Internet censorship could also result in job losses since a court order may compel online search engines in America to block results or domain names. This could contribute to the instant death of some companies, particularly those with limited resources to fight potential legal cases. In addition, concerns have also been raised regarding the possibility of Internet censorship to weaken the protection provided by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act that
Regulating Internet Privacy Privacy regulation has remained pinnacle of issues that got birth with internet. Every innovation in technology is at the expense of privacy; it is no more there as most of technicians believe. A layman using internet does not find how and when his personal information is can be traced by someone else; privacy at workplace that was once enjoyed by the employees is no more at one's disposal,
Internet Governance by U.S. Government An amateurish video, "Innocence of Muslims," posted on YouTube in September 2012 was the catalyst for a string of anti-American protests and riots throughout the Islamic world. The short trailer, promoting an anti-Muslim film, was attributed to a motley crew of right-wing Christians in America (Sengupta, 2012). Angry mobs in Egypt were the first to react to the video on September 11 when they breached the
With the widespread use of such technologies, we require greater understanding of the personal and social attributes that affect why people use computer-mediated communication (CMC) and the outcomes of CMC-related behavior." (Papacharissi & Rubin, 2000) Barriers and Issues The most fundamental concern in the refurbishment building's networking and VoIP proposal is also the industry's most basic barriers to accomplishing the goal of networking success. In other words, instituting a highly efficient