i need some points on this debate topic- internet is a threat to local cultures and values?
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http://www.trendwatchgraphicarts.com/download/WirelessRev_TOC.pdf#search='nternet%20as%20a%20threat' click on the link to find what u r looking for. read it thoroughly.
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With today's technology and demographic implosion,  the world has become a smaller place. We have a clash with other civilizations not understanding different cultures. Each culture differs in customs, traditions, behavior, religion and language. The idea that the Western culture wants to impose a Universal State in the world is impossible and not even war can make it happen. We are headed towards major destruction, not total, but something very drastic.
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The information highway is only as good as the input. I have found many mistakes while surfing for research material. It seems too many opinions are spicing up the Internet; but it lowers value to information. Case in point; I did some research on Chinese Shaolin. Since there were so many differing articles, I finally decided to get a translator and gain the correct information from some monks.
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First off, I strongly disagree with the person right above me, but respectfully so. I just don't think it's possible that a wack country could get enough weapons to "destroy" earth. And we wouldn't need to destroy the earth to respond. I just think that is an unlikely scenario. Will nukes be lit off in our time? Probably, but I don't think it will destroy the world.\n\nHowever, regarding your specific item, your prof is right that the United States is destroying itself. Here are my points:\n\n* Dysfunctional families. 50% divorce rates, parents working two jobs, single parents, teen parents (on the rise). Through our history we have relied on a solid social foundation, where families were expected to raise kids right. That doesn't happen now, and once you start sliding, it is near impossible to stop. On this point, I see the reasoning behind diehard conservatives and their hate for liberals. Well, I am a liberal (so to speak), but I am a firm believer in a solid family, with children being dealt with strictly as needed (not beat, but made to know the rights and wrongs).\n\n* Media onslaught. Gets worse and worse. MTV, television in general. I don't even like taking my kids to supposed "G-rated" movies anymore. Pop culture, or whatever you call it, is slowly destroying our traditional culture. And with kids and too much free time, video games, internet, and tv really are doing some damage.\n\n* Educational issues. In this day and age, it is impossible to "leave no child behind". Our schools should be geared to handle the upper level kids, college bound kids. Riff-raff that are there for fun and games should have a half-day school, and job corps the other half to get real life skills. Our college-bound learners are being brought down by an increasing number of riff-raff kids.\n\n* Economical issues. Because of educational issues, and greed on the profit margin, companies are outsourcing white-collar jobs to India and China, where better educated people will work for less pay.\n\nThere is more. I think your prof is right in a way. We are losing our edge.
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What a brilliant topic!  You coulld write heaps on this.  Three items I'd be prepared to give up? Let's see, I object to too much government interference in my life, but acknowledge the need for a central organising power.  So, perhaps look at what changes have happened, especially since 9/11, to personal freedoms. And what people have seemed to accept, more or less willingly, in order to ensure safety.  It's much easier to list three items you WOULDN"T give up.  I wouldn't give up right to free speech, for example.  It's too important.
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I would guess that it has polarized views even farther. Maybe we Americans just don't know how to play nice. My hardly contained contempt aside, our religious and spiritual beliefs, our values seem to be our identity, our purpose. What else is more important to argue about? I think we are all eager to communicate, but we just don't do it well. While the internet provides an easy and comfortable place to be expressive, we tend to let our ultimate desire for harmonious relationships and appropriate discussion go somehow...I guess collectively we are just figuring out how to speak and listen.
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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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Sounds ridiculous. What is the potential threat to well being? I can see why it applies to phone service. But cable?
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I agree more needs to be done, but check out:\n\nhttp://www.virtualglobaltaskforce.com/\n\nThis will give you plenty of links to agencies active on the Internet, tips on how to protect your kids and how children can be safe.\n\nIt is everybody working together than can make the Internet safe, all sharing responsibility.
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Internet providers agree to promote dismemberment materials so as to keep the internet fair and free. Perhaps you should adjust an adult content filter to insensitive. Does is have a setting for "Would rather remain ignorant of world events."?
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Oy! you just nicked my next question!!!!!\n\nWell what IS that all about. Recognition that cyber is no longer a mysetrious space carved out in the unknown, but just another society developing from human interaction. And that will inevitably be contaminated with the existing one. Too bad!\n\nthumbs up!
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It continues to impact use.  Since the internet is part of telecommunication in the broader sense, it has affected you right now as you are reading this.  The distance between people grows less and less everyday.
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IT SEEMS THAT ANYONE WHO SPENDS ALL DAY ON LINE NEEDS TO GET A LIFE.ON THE OTHER HAND THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO FOR ONE REASON OR ANOTHER, ARE SAVED FROM A LONELY LIFE BY GOING ON LINE. I 'M NOT TALKING ABOUT THE ONES WHO PREY ON YOUNG CHILDREN. I HOPE THERE IS A SOLUTION TO THIS PROBLEM SOON.\nI GUESS YOU AND I HAVE OTHER THINGS TO DO DURING THE COURSE OF A DAY AND,USE OUR TIME WISELY. MAYBE SOMEDAY WE WILL BE SPENDING MORE TIME ON THE FASCINATING WORLD OF THE INTERNET.
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What a good question. I believe that the Internet is basically good insofar as it improves communications between people all over the planet. It has the potential to enrich and improve lives, but just like in the real world, there are a lot of people who operate on the dark side and engage in base and awful things. One major problem is the internet can be reached and used in private behind closed doors and therefore the really awful stuff comes out.\n\nWhat you do in private defines your inner character, and I am afraid that lots of people in the world today have characters that are dark. But all-in-all, I still feel that the benefits outweight the negatives. \n\nAgain... good question.
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That sounds like... GLOBALIZATION!\n\nLots of people are afraid of globalization, but not me. (Mass, cross-cultural communication and electronic technology are actually allowing us to diversify and retain separate identities. (See Marshall Mcluhan, Thomas Hylland Eriksen or Google for an article called 'My Hometown is a URL in cyberspace' about the resurgence of ethnic identities due to the internet.))\n\nHowever, I find it difficult to cope with the many layers of bureaucracy in my current life. First of all I have the local government which is 'the city and county of Swansea', then above that is the national government - 'the Welsh Assembly', then above that is the British government, and overruling them is the European Union and (supposedly) the United Nations. Before you could start a World government you'd have to weed out a few of these, preferably the British Government as Blair is growing increasingly irritating.\n\nThere's also the problem of which political system to use. We hear so much about the glory of democracy, but some cultures just don't seem to want it. Also, democratic elections could cause mayhem in a world government; there'd be so many parties that there might not be a majority and they'd never ever agree on anything! And for such a moral force as a world government, you'd be aiming to get as close to consensus as possible. Would there be proportional representation of votes? Would minority groups resent this?\n\nSo much to decide... but who would make the decisions?
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I have no clue.  There is a mix of people on the net and some feel that since they are behind a computer screen they can be anything that they want. Just like my space.  I'm not saying everyone on the net is a bad person but it is too hard to weed out the good from the bad.  my opinion is take everything everyone says lightly and don't trust anyone. They don't know you and you don't know them so who cares what they think.
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I do not think it is a nation that is the big threat to peace.  Religion is the threat and has been for one heck of a long time.  There are many other factors as well such as language, customs and economy.  Nations get caught up in wars and other conflicts due to one or all of these and more reasons.  I keep hearing and Reading how bed things are now.  Do any of you read and understand history at all.  There is more peace on this earth now than there has been for over three thousand years.  This is a fact, it is true.  What is causing all this fear is the fact that now anything that happens any place on earth and beyond can be shown to the entire world in a matter of minutes.  The news media spends very little time reporting the good. Good does not earn enough money so it is the bad that people want to see and hear about.  I know most will not believe what I say because most are not able to think for themselves.