Government Intervention On The Internet

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subjects are Internet privacy and Internet censorship.
At the moment, the Internet is epitome of our first amendment, free
speech. It is a place where a person can speak their mind without being
reprimanded for what they say or how they choose to say it. But also contained
on the Internet, are a huge collection of obscene graphics, Anarchists'
cookbooks, and countless other things that offend many people. There are over
30 million Internet surfers in the U.S. alone, and much is to be said about what
offends whom and how.
As with many new technologies, today's laws don't apply well when it
comes to the Internet. Is the Internet like a bookstore, where servers can not
be expected to review every title? Is it like a phone company who must ignore
what it carries because of privacy; or is it like a broadcast medium, where the
government monitors what is broadcast? The problem we are facing today is that
the Internet can be all or none of the above depending on how it is ...

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uncrackable
communications across the Internet. Devices set up to filter certain
communications cannot filter that which cannot be read, which leads to my other
topic of interest: data encryption.
By nature, the Internet is an insecure method of transferring data. A
single E-mail packet may pass through hundreds of computers between its source
and destination. At each computer, there is a chance that the data will be
archived and someone may intercept the data, private or not. Credit card
numbers are a frequent target of hackers. Encryption is a means of encoding
data so that only someone with the proper "key" can decode it. So far, recent
attempts by the government to control ...

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