what are the disadvantages of the internet to the government?
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Because crazy people get on it and post all kinds of crazy stuff that people believe.  It doesn't help that TV makes people stupid and now the Internet is just another arm of the lunacy.
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The biggest problem is the proliferation of false and misleading information.  Unfortunately there are many who use the net to spread rumor and misinformation to promote themselves and their own agenda.  It is very important to have peer reviewed information.  Another problem is the predator mentality that uses a wonderful tool to prey on others either financially or sexually.  There is always bad with the good, but it is up to individuals to protect themselves and be aware of what is out there.
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Advantages: Bring communication from the outside world to those who are isolated by geography or political repression but have the necessary receiving equipment. Such communications can educate; can save lives by warning about impending natural disasters; can inspire change by relating the lives of those in freer societies. Imaging and directional RF receiving satellites can help search and rescue, evacuation planning. \nDisadvantages: Every potentially advantageous function can be used disadvantageously. Can enable repressive regimes to propagandize, spy, direct weapons fire.
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1. There is a reason they block them.\n2. If you get caught, you probably signed something saying you will lose computer privileges.\n3. If you get caught, you will probably get in trouble.\n4. If you need to access something blocked to do school work, like emailing a senator, you need to talk to your teacher, who in turn should talk to the technology coordinator.\n5. You can usually check your email at the public library.  Oh yeah, did you know they have books in there too?  A lot of young people don't know how to use a library, and it is still a good resource, even with the internet.
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The hard part about this would be getting distance networking going.  You would either have to have some majorly expensive equipment, that communicates via satellite to receive internet service, or else the infrastructure would have to be put into place in the areas you're working in.  It depends on what kind of distance you're talking about, really, but honestly, you're looking at some MAJOR costs, and potentially even a lot of bureaucratic red tape depending on the method of transmission between the sites.
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Advantages:\n-----------\n- cheap phone calls\n- can be done from any country in the world\n\nDisadvantages:\n--------------\ndepends on internet access, so if the internet access is dial-up, you will never get the desired sound queality...\n\nalso, if you subscribe with a company that sends you a hand set to make your calls from, it depends on teh internet, so, if you ar ea heavy downloader, I think the sound quality won't be of a satisfactory level as the majority of hte bandwidth is already occupied in another task...
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1.1 About Internet censorship\n\nIn the last 10 years the Internet grew very, very fast. It is a bunch of thousands of little networks put together. Billion computers are connected and it is basically not controlled or even owned by a government or company. There are no laws, everybody can put his webpages online which can be accessed by everybody on the world who is sitting in front of a computer with Internet access. I believe that this can and will change the world as we know it today.\nBut there are several governments who think that this unlimited access to information is dangerous for their citizens. These are for example Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Cuba, Jordan, Tunisia, Burma, Singapore, Uzbekistan, Yemen, Kuwait, Vietnam, Syria, Iran, United Arab Emirates and parts of Africa. and even in countries like Australia, Switzerland and in some parts of Germany they censor websites. This ranks from a very easy to circumvent DNS blocking of only 2 Nazi sites in parts of Germany to a government office with 30.000 employees only working in blocking thousands of websites, services and ports in China.\nThough the blocking methods are different there are also different ways to bypass them. I will try to show you how to access the website of Amnesty International, BBC, Google and other blocked sites in your country. I made this website in very basic HTML, so that you can even view it with a very old computer. Please share this information, link the site, copy it, mirror it, print it (I didn't "hide" any links, so that no link is lost when you print it) and teach your friends and relatives!\n\nMore info: http://www.encyclopedia-online.info/Censorship_in_cyberspace\n\n1.2 My reasons for writing this\n\nWell, I'm living in Germany, which is not very famous for it's censoring. But the local government from one of the 16 German states (NRW) tries to introduce censorship by blocking 2 US Nazi sites. Sure, I really don't like those guys but in my opinion no government or even a system administrator got the right to choose which information a individual have access to. What websites are next? Who chooses which websites will be blocked? Additionally, my school blocks some websites and so I became interesting in this topic.\n\n1.3 How to get this file\n\nAs you are reading this you actually found this file somewhere. The most updated version you can get here:\n\nEuropean mirror: http://www.zensur.freerk.com/ - (Lambdanet - Erfurt, Germany)\nAmerican mirror: http://nocensor.citizenlab.org/ - (University of Toronto - Toronto, Canada)\nAsian/Pacific mirror: http://blocks.orcon.net.nz/ - (Orcon ISP - Auckland, New Zealand)\n\nSSL mirror: https://secure.sslpowered.com/bpass/ (Netfirms, Toronto, Canada) and https://ssl-account.com/zensur.freerk.com/\nDynamic IP mirror: http://maybe-yours.dyndns.org/ (please email me!)\n\neMail autoresponder: index.htm@zensur.freerk.com (just send an empty email, you will instantly get this text as plain HTML in return)\n\nGoogle Cache: http://www.google.com/search?q=cache:www.zensur.freerk.com/ - (maybe some days old)\n\n1.4 License\n\nPermission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this document, to deal with this document without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, translate, merge, publish, distribute, and/or sell copies of the document, and to permit persons to whom the document is furnished to do so, provided that the author (Freerk) and at least two mirror server of the original text (see: 1.3 How to get this file) appear in all copies of the document.\n\nBasicaly this means that you can do anything with this text as long as you mention my name and a way to obtain this original file. First I wanted to publish this paper under the GNU Free Documentation License (http://www.gnu.org/licenses/fdl.html) but I think the licence is to restrictive and complicated (see also: Why You Shouldn't Use the GNU FDL - http://home.t
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Paying Taxes is pretty much the only disadvantage to becoming a U.S. Citizen. In the U.S., we have more chances to live a better life like going to college, learning a trade that could land you a better paying job, and the chance to say what you think about the government, which in any other country you would be in trouble for speaking out against your government. I don't know about everybody else, but I think paying taxes is about the only disadvantage to being a U.S. citizen. No one realizes how good we have it here in the U.S., they think it is this terrible place, but the U.S.has the yard with the greenest grass, so to speak.
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Internet is a tool, and it can be very powerful to make really good friends.\nBut, you always have to be careful, because risks exist.\nIt should be an alternative way to meet people, no the main way.\nVirtuality is great because saves distances and cultural barrels but it never can't replace the reality.\nIt should be a complement.\nAbout theft identity, money stealers and computer viruses, if you don't make your entire life around a computer, risks are smaller.\nTake care.
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In a nutshell the internet is a massive network of computers with the main players having servers holding stored data. When you download a video from a website it is like retrieving a video from your cd or harddrive except you are downloading it from someone else's cd or harddrive on their server.\n\nSeveral factors keep "things online" online. The server computer holding stored data, telephone or cable companies, and associated electronic gadgets. The server computer needs to on and connected to the internet, the telephone lines need to be open or cable internet operating, and modems and nodes and all the other gadgets need to be in good working order.\n\nThat's it in a nutshell!
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www.faqs.org/faqs/internet-ser...\n-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------\n[ Usenet FAQs | Search | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ]\nAccessing the Internet by E-mail FAQ\nThere are reader questions on this topic!\nHelp others by sharing your knowledge\n\nMessage-ID: <internet-services/access-via-email_1084363323@rtfm.mit.edu>\nX-Last-Updated: 2002/04/16\nFrom: Gerald E. Boyd <gboyd@expita.com>\nNewsgroups: alt.internet.services, alt.online-service, alt.bbs.internet, \ncomp.mail.misc, news.newusers.questions\nSubject: Accessing the Internet by E-mail FAQ\nSummary: This guide will show you how to explore the World Wide Web,\n          retrieve files from FTP sites, and even access Usenet\n          newsgroups using E-MAIL AS YOUR ONLY TOOL.\nDate: 12 May 2004 12:03:01 GMT\n\nArchive-name: internet-services/access-via-email\nPosting-Frequency: weekly\nLast-modified: 2002/04/04\nVersion: 10.2\n\n         +--------------------------------------------------+\n         |         Accessing The Internet By E-mail         |\n         |         Guide to Offline Internet Access         |\n         |          Version 10.2 - April 04, 2002           |\n         +--------------------------------------------------+\n\n               Copyright (c) 1999-2002, Gerald E. Boyd\n                          gboyd@expita.com\n\n       All rights reserved. Permission is granted to duplicate and\n       distribute copies of this document provided the copyright\n       notice and this permission notice are preserved on all copies.\n\n\nA Brief History\n---------------\n\nAccessing The Internet By E-mail or originally known as "Doctor Bob's\nGuide to Offline Internet Access" was the brainchild of Bob Rankin (a\ngreat net guy) who started it up in 1994.  He kept it up about 5 years\nbefore passing it to me in January 1999, when it became apparent he was\ntoo busy with other projects (Internet Tourbus, writing, etc.) to\ncontinue maintaining it.\n\nIn October 1997 I had taken over the moderator duties of the ACCMAIL\nmailing list (which is used to further develop ideas expressed in this\nFAQ) and started a web page based on this FAQ. I guess he figured I was\nthe logical person to take over the FAQ. Hmmm!\n\nSo there you go.\n\n\nHow to Access Internet Services by E-mail\n-----------------------------------------\n\nIf you don't have direct access to the Internet through your BBS or\nonline service, you're not alone.  Many of the world's countries with\nInternet connections have only e-mail access to this world-wide network\nof networks.\n\nBut if you think that sounds limiting, read on.  You can access almost\nany Internet resource using e-mail.  Maybe you've heard of FTP, Gopher,\nJughead, Usenet, Finger, Whois, Nslookup, Traceroute, and the World-Wide\nWeb but thought they were out of your reach because you don't have a\ndirect connection.\n\nNot so!  You can use simple e-mail commands to do all of this and much\nmore on the Internet.  And even if you do have full Internet access,\nusing e-mail services can save you time and money.  If you can send a\nnote to an Internet address, you're in the game.\n\nI encourage you to read this entire document first and then go back and\ntry out the techniques that are covered.  This way, you will gain a\nbroader perspective of the information resources that are available, an\nintroduction to the tools you can work with, and the best methods for\nfinding the information you want.\n\n\nRecent Changes To This Document\n-------------------------------\n\n10.2 web2mail signup address changed,ISPs be e-mail web page changed,\n      Webster dictionary lookup address changed,\n      ADD PDF CONVERSIONS BY EMAIL,\n      wwwfmail_pro@wwwfetch.com DEFUNCT, jiscmail address change,\n      translate@leo.org (German - English translation service) DEFUNCT\n      mailandnews.com DEFUNCT as of 28Feb02,\n      query@ncbi.nlm.
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National Access is awful.  It is MUCH slower than dial-up and usually doesn’t work at all.  However it does work just like a regular internet connection, only badly.
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.gov is where the government provides funding for that website. .net is just like .com except they try not to sell you stuff. they still try to keep you educated
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You have begun to ask the question that riddles the worldwide scope of Policy leaders for twelve years now. I cannot believe that anything should change directly affecting our personal use. There presently is monitoring systems located within each server that handles broadband traffic. There are new programs designed to establish a set of Super Nodes that create a sub field within the 'Internet' to handle traffic and material. This connection would run multiple times faster than even T3, and provide access to your home PC from your mobile PDA, laptop etc. This would be available with a secure 'network' one that could be highly monitored, but reach as wide of the horizon. A change like this needs to be developed before any true Policing of the Internet can be possible, I believe.
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In which country you live ? So many countries do this to stop their people from being resent, or hide the truth, or keep them away from democratic atmosphere. There is one easy way to get access to the sites which are banned by your government and that is satelite phone or purchase cellphone card of some other country and using that get connected to internet.
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If its actively blocked by your government, you can try using proxy websites, or maybe by a different isp?
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You can, but it is unlikely they will do anything about it. Millions of users, no staff to address all the problems.