Gift of Fire #2

5.4 - Two web sites blocked by filters that are not the kinds of sites filters are intended to block are the spam on email messages, and commercial advertising spam.

5.5- two methods used by some governments to control access to information is they censor sexual and other material on the net.

5.7- two reasons why people object to spam is because they see one advertisement that has a city close to them and want to check it out, and people see something cheap that they need and check it out and then they get spam.

5.11- I believe the policies for Internet access and use of filter software that is appropriate for elementary schools is that they should filter out any website that has sexual or other material, and any friend finding sites. For the filter in high schools I believe that the school should filter out any sexual or other material but keep friend finding sites open because this is there time and they need to start to make their own decisions.

5. 14- I believe that the school should have been on top of the children. They should be able to check the sites every day after school and be able to know that they children are looking at these sites. The children made the wrong decision of looking at this site and even trying to make the bomb. "these are really dangerous sites..." yes this is a true statement and they shouldn't have been looking at it in the first place or thinking about putting it in the school. If they were thinking about it they shouldn't have put it in the school and they should have checked how powerful the bomb was because why would they put someone in danger.

5. 15- There should be no law restricting availability of such material on the internet. The internet is for people to look up things that they are curious about. Just because one person doesn't believe in a different religion doesn't mean that there should be a law. People should be able to look up what they please outside of school or work. They should be restricted in school because it is inappropriate but outside of school there should be no problem doing what you want. There is no difference between sexual material, sexist or racist comments, or bomb making on the internet. People have ethics. They need to know whether or not they want to look at something because it will either come back to them in the future or not. They need to think about things and it all counts on the person who is looking at the internet page.

5.17- A issue that is raised by this problem is that terrorist would be able to find our satellites. People would be frightened and might protest against this. Others might say that this is good because then the US will be able to see everything and that they are always looking over us. Posting satellite orbits should not be illegal because they are always looking over the US and can see everything. It should only be illegal if the orbits could not see everything. It is a stronger argument with having the orbits be legal because this is what the US thought was good and they did this for a reason.

5. 18- If harris interactive had not dropped its suit against the ail abuse prevention system then the people would have received its emails and Harris would have meet its standards for assuring the recipients consent, Harris had claimed it was recommended for the spammers listed by a competing poling company. Harris claimed inclusion on the list cut it off from about half of its survey participants and harmed its buissness and it wouldn't have happened if it wasn't for buissness.