should there be regulations set up for personal use of the internet by government officals?
204944
unfortunately you cannot, government officials have the same protections we do unless they are using government computers to do so.
359353
No, if anything we should give the individual states more power to govern themselves. The federal governmnet already has too much power over the states as it is.
259652
Sorry, not liberals.\nIt is corporations, the ones that conservatives love, who are the ones who want to regulate the Internet. Big corporations like SBC and Time-Warner want to regulate the net so they can make bigger profits.\n\nIt is liberals who want to prevent corporations from seizing control of the Internet and limiting freedom.\nSorry to burst your bubble.
101974
It is very tricky to answer. Yes it's a hard situation (no pun intended) the learning sites have routes to porn. Remember, the bill of rights was invented with no concept of internet and stuff, to stop the people posting the sites, you might be asking to tamper with our basic freedoms. This is an interesting topic.
280093
i've heard u can get internet for free, but the work-around isn't as easy these days.\n\nmaybe it will become more common knowledge if this happens.\n\ni think internet should be free, like tv and radio. \n\ni think it will replace them in the end anyway.\n\nall the ads everywhere on the net can pay for the infrastructure
465593
Seeing as how it is current practice, the internet will not have anything listed, besides it is probably going to be classified information. The only thing google brings up is the issue and if it works, then the ACLU whining about it. \n\nIf you have to know, fill out a FOI request, (Freedom of Information) but do not be surprised if nothing is returned, or if you get a knock at the door.
180254
Not yet. But if the senate passes this bill, it could be even illegal to stream music on the net. If the RIAA succeeds in doing that, fortunately only music under a Creative Commons license will be available : )
148582
No, but I think religion should be a personal practice and have NOTHING to do with the government at all. Until that happens, yes it should be repressed from all governmental function.
662615
Noone ever owned it that I'm aware of.  There isn't really one person or group of people that created it.  It's been developing for a few decades, and is not anything like what it originally began as.  Currently the FCC makes and enforces rules for the internet.  Soon, it will be your internet access provider i.e. Comcast, AT&T, etc. who will decide how the internet works, if you can access it, and what websites you will be able to see.  You can thank Congress for that.
209610
I would say that whenever you transmit something out into the world where anyone can pick it up you have virtually no privacy rights at all.  This would include the internet, CB radio, amateur radio and cell phones.  If you do not like this notion, then do not use these things. Imagine if Howard Stern started yapping about his privacy rights concerning things he said on the radio.
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Yes, I do. First of all, it would keep more porn from reaching mainstream internet. If your not interested in pornography, it can be quite unpleasant to stumble across it in unlikely places. \n\nIn addition, I think it would make policing a bit easier. Legitimate porn would be registered, so police would be able to single out the illegal sites outside of the domain (such as child pornography pages). \n\nFinally, parents could better protect their children from sexually explicit materials by simply blocking the entire domain. \n\nThe only drawback I can see is that it would be difficult to register all porn sites in the .xxx domain. It would most likely take some advertising, which I believe officials are loathe to consider. Ads are almost always seen by those who should definitely not be exposed to them (like alcohol advertising and children).
204038
Absolutely not. The internet is controlled by humans, it doesn't expand on its own. It doesn't have the ability to expand on its own and it never will have the ability to learn anything. It doesn't learn. Thats like filling a pitcher with jello and saying, "Look it's a living being. It has a structure, it holds what i put into it and it wiggles when i touch it!!"
151748
You mean like China (they limit Internet usage)?  They have plenty to gain.  If you can keep a population ignorant, you can control them, and that is what communism is all about.
532654
Damn good plan.  It is too hard for people to run non-partisan web sites now a days.  Maybe we should contact our Secretary of State and suggest this idea and see what they say.
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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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Technically yes (although legally difficult concept as yet) but it is also insecure so your data may be unsafe - the 'owner' of the network could be intercepting your data.
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You may download whatever is provided over the internet for your own usage.  You may not redistribute it to other people.