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ate adult sites and specialized search engines programs will filter a greater percentage of these sites. Some people would think about forcing Internet service providers (ISP) about being penalize about the content they carry, but ISP are common carries such as telephone companies or even bookstores, that are not responsible for the content of the message they carry. The responsibility for any censorship should rests not with a central authority but with the administrators of private and public computer networks. Many congressional leaders will push ethical legislations. New amendments will be done to the Constitution, to make the Internet highway as safe as possible for kids and families to travel. Just as we have laws against dumping garbage on the interstate, we ought to have similar laws for the information super-highway. Congress will need to create and toughen penalties for people who violate those laws for example people who actively transmit illegally pornographic and harassing material. Computers are a unique medium because children often have much more knowledge about how they operate than their parents. Actions should be taken to protect children from obscenity, pornography and indecency in the Internet. Just as we have laws against murder and we have laws against speeding. We still have murder and we still have speeding. But I think that we very likely would have more murders and more speeders if we didn't have laws as a deterrent.Internet is growing constantly and is becoming a hard to regulate the entire world networks and every country has it’s own laws, policies, and ethical values. Until this day we have come up with technical standards for the entire Internet but there are not yet ethical standards that rule the World Wide Web. Governments of the world should nurture laws and standards for ethical issues for this huge network. Also we need to be aware of Internet threats and learn how to protect our privacy w...

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