Internet (1028 words)

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Who is supposed to be the watchdog on the
net? This question will raise the temperature in almost any room. The government
already has to many regulations on lots of things, who wants Uncle Sam’s
hand in the web. Some of the regulations that are applied are there for
specific reasons. Those protect the people before the damage to say a young
child posing for porn can be done. Those people that would be trying to
regulate the Internet could be going after those sick, pathetic petafiles
that float around in the child chat rooms.

In my opinion, the parents should
be the ones that are responsible for what their children view on the Internet.

The net itself can be very valuable if used as a tool for learning. In
the group Families Against Internet Censorship, they understand the concept
of parental filtering (Censorship 2000). One of the families uses primarily
the Internet to home-school their children. When a child signs on to the
web, he or she has almost infinite resources right at the ends of their
fingertips. Where else can you maximize the worlds resources from inside
the comforts of home. I know that a young teenager can productively use
this information. I have been using the net for about eight years for my
reports and personal knowledge quests. My father would check on me every
now and again to make sure I was on task. Not only was he keeping what
I viewed pg13, he was helping me use different search engines and being
my troubleshooter until I could surf the web by myself. Lots of the children
now days are just tuned loose with a computer and not checked on until
suppertime or bedtime. With that much freedom come temptation, this leads
to the children looking up porn, explosives, or something else that their
parents would not want them to look at.

In my opinion, pornography should
be allowed on the Internet as long as it is within legal bounds that are
already established. I personally do not sit up all night trying to see
some naked body in a freaky position. Nevertheless, I do not have a problem
if my neighbor looks at pornographic material all day long as long as he
does not pressure me with it. You never know where an online neighbor is
from. The Internet is neither owned or ran by the United States. Many people
view the human body as a work of art. The United States especially makes
a big deal out of nudity. In Eastern Europe the children will not even
were bathing suits until they reach the age around puberty. What gives
our government the right to police the world based on our views?
Yesterday I was watching some television
with a female friend of mine when the talk show Sally came on. The show
happened to be about children and the Internet. In this ten to twelve-year-old
chat room, this ten-year-old girl chatted with someone across the net for
a little while. After the girl had talked to the person in the chat room
for about a week, she gave the person her telephone number. Later in the
week, the little girl found out the person on the other end of the computer
was an older man. This child molester was caught having sexual activity
with his eight-year-old neighbor in the state of Alabama. On another chat
room, the mother of the ten-year-old went to scout out another chat room
and found a petafile online admitting to being a pervert to the young children.

On this same episode, an undercover cop posed as a fourteen-year-old female.

The cop’s bait was immediately taken by a sixteen-year-old male. Within
a few minutes the male had already offered alcohol to who he thought was
a fourteen year old female. The next thing the male brought up in the conversation
was sexual offers. So within twenty minutes this police officer has already
been offered sex and alcohol. This officer, Detective Mike Harris, recently
went to the middle school where he resides in Jefferson County Colorado.

He was speaking to the kids about all the dangers on the net, and ran across
some crazy statistics. Out of 185 students, 145 of them have the Internet
in their household. Thirty-five of these children had access to the web
in their room (Sally 2000). This makes it even more difficult for the parents
to regulate these children’s Internet privileges.

Uncle Sam has no business in adding
more regulations to the net. That bear has his