I am doing a university paper which asks whether the citizen of the internet would actually give up their freedoms or anonymity, movement, freedom of speech in exchange for higher levels of regulation. The regulation would be in order to stop hackers (only the bad ones (they do not necessarily all hack for personal motives)), stop identity theft as well as extremist propoganda or child abuse, idenity theft or other criminal activities. Stopping the bad element of society would also restrict the rights of the good within the internet society. I have fully covered both the China, Iran, France arguments etc. I am just looking for a broad spectrum of what people think about this point. I want to put a point in regarding what the internet citizen would actually think and it would be really useful to get opinions from the real internet "netizens".
Thanks in anticipation.
2006-12-30
20:37:08
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cassie s
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