...companies localized monopoly power in order to correct for ‘natural monopoly-style’ market failures. The states argued that the cost advantages caused by overwhelming economies of scale allowed the winners to establish monopolies “naturally” threatening public well-being. This idea of a “public interest” and the “greater good” was extended to also regulate other critical public services such as the water and gas utilities. Recently, in January of 2014, a federal appeals court ruled that regulations enacted by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) unfairly treated Internet services providers as if they were public utilities. This decision halted the expansion of these ideals to regulate additional industries, namely the Internet. This landmark decision begs the question, should the Internet be considered a public utility? If so, is this the best solution to the problems facing Americans regarding the Internet service provider industry? Before I jump into a discussion of what...
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...The Bad Effects of The Internet On The Teenagers Brent Staples is an editorial writer for the New York Times. In “What Adolescents Miss When We Let Them Grow Up in Cyberspace”, Brent writes about how teenagers nowadays spend too much time on the Internet to communicate with each other, and forget to interact with families and friends in the real life. Using the Internet too much cost the teenagers don’t have socializing, the real world experience that would allow them to leave teenagers behind and grow into adulthood. (Staples 18) I strongly agree with Staples that many teenagers spend too much time on the Internet for chatting and playing online games than for studying and socializing. When teenagers spend too much time on the Internet, they will miss out the experience of talking face-to-face and don’t know how to communicate to a job later. Indeed, the Internet seriously takes away the socializing time of teenagers and makes them don’t have any social skills to communicate with the people in the real world. Over the past few months, I found out Facebook has become increasingly prominent in the lives of UC Davis students. Conversations are no longer made in real life person. Instead, many UC Davis students log in to their free Facebook accounts to communicate with each other. Moreover, I saw many of my friends send messages through Facebook to their next-door neighbor instead of walking a couple steps to meet with their neighbors face-to-face. They are seriously missed out...
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...Less Face-to-Face Communication Young Soo Shim of the University of Southern Illinois compiled a study that highlights the impact of the Internet on teenage communication. The study, based on responses from students at an Illinois high school, found that some teens might attempt to use the Internet as a way to escape from the real world or avoid personal contact. As a result, the more time they spent using the Internet, the less likely was their desire to see and talk to with family members and friends. Cyberbullying Teens sometimes use the Internet to bully other teens. Sometimes it starts with insulting someone or sharing personal information about another teen on social networking sites in an attempt to embarrass them. It can escalate to stalking and physical violence. A 2010 ABC news report, "Mean Girls: Cyberbullying Blamed for Teen Suicides," called attention to cyberbullying, which means using social media sites and email to harass and ridicule others. The report says that this type of harassment has been responsible for teen suicides. Time and Risks When teens spend many hours per day using the Internet, they reduce the time they have to spend with family and on school work and physical activities. In addition, according to an article written by Kate Fogarty, assistant professor with the Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences at the University of Florida, a teen who goes online for two or more hours, three or more times a week, faces a higher risk of falling...
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...PARENT’S ROLE TOWARDS THE INTERNET Thesis statement: Since surfing the internet have greatly affected the lives of young people, parents should develop a new practical system to monitor their children when they’re surfing the internet. Introduction: Surfing the internet have become very famous throughout the world. A. This paper aims to show the effects of internet to the lives of young people. B. It also aims to show the new practical system to monitor children while using the internet. I. The internet, like other technologies, has also its history. A. The invention of the internet started to help people in making their research more progressive. B. Later on, the Internet started to develop and become the way it is today. II. There are many effects of using the internet. A. Internet has been very useful to everyone. B. Internet has become one of the problems of many parents. III. Parents have roles in developing their children. A. It is important that children must have a proper guidance for their parents in their early childhood. B. Even though children become teenagers and have the right to decide for themselves, they still need to be guided to prevent bad information from corrupting their minds. IV. Parents could use new practical systems to monitor their children. A. They could use manual monitoring. B. They could also use advanced technology to...
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...Internet Censorship Do you like to use the internet? There are many ways you can use the internet, you can use it for texting, watching movies on Netflix. When you look something you can find millions of choices to choose from. You can also play very realistic games on your phone when you think of movies you should go on Netflix because there are lots of movies to pick from. Texting a friend is fun because you can talk to them whenever you like. But there is a downside for these three but there are good things. Some things that are on the internet teach children about science, animals, grammar, and math. But sometimes there are websites that are meant to be restricted, because there are a lot of inappropriate things on the internet. When kids look up science there are many things you can find many scientific websites. But the bad thing about them looking up a science experiment that could be potentially dangerous, a child would want to do the same experiment. When a child looks up something to help them with a paragraph they might find a good website to use as a references but they can also find a lot of curse words on a web site. There are many extraordinary things that you can find on the Internet but beware of inappropriate stuff....
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...Internet Addiction In today's world, most Americans use the internet daily for daily needs. It has become very common to go online because it makes research and socializing easier. The internet is a great place for social networking and meeting or communicating with people across the world. Nicholas Carr, author of the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid”, claims that using the internet can make people less intelligent. After spending a number of days researching on the topic of internet use, I have came to agree with Carr. I not only agree with him, that using the internet does make internet users less intelligent, I also believe that using the internet too often can make a person addicted to the internet. Once a person is addicted to the internet, they not only become less intelligent, like Carr believes, but they also develop mental and psychological problems. People should be more aware of internet addiction. The signs and symptoms should not be avoided when someone sees themself in the addiction situation. Once they become addicted, it is like a real drug, it will pull them in slowly and be hard to get away from. DSM IV and the International Statistical Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) define addiction in terms of substance dependence or pathological gambling. To define internet addiction, it would be someone that meets at least three of the following criteria: tolerance, salience, withdrawal symptoms, difficulty controlling use, continued use despite negative consequences...
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... “How the Internet has changed life “ Artificial Intelligence is starting to take over the world. Lately, a huge majority of people would choose the internet to research information then through a book. Internet first went public in 1989, but it wasn’t until many years later that it became widely known or used. In the early nineties, the internet was in a completely different place from now. It was a text only web browser, which gave way to graphical web browsers with supported images that is used in today’s society. As more sites started to develop, an ecommerce took hold. By 2000, the internet truly went “Main-Stream”. With 20 to 30 years of being born, the internet has made major changes worldwide. In the beginning, many people suspected that the internet was an insignificant tool due to that few people had access to it. It now plays an essential role in day-to-day life. There are many different reasons why a person would need access to the internet. Some may use it for business purposes like advertising and marketing their business. While others may use the internet for a way of communication by socializing with family and friends worldwide through social media. As the internet has been revolving through the modern age, many question “Is the internet affecting my brain?” Well everything we do affects our brain. The bigger question is “Are the affects good or bad? “. The answer...
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...the entertainment buisness?” Candidate Name: Sumeth Madan Candidate Number: 1156FAGD011 Session: 2012-2015 Subject: ARCS Word Count : 4538 Supervisor: Hans Kirkels Draft – Final 19th June 2013 | Abstract: Background - Piracy in the Internet is defined as the evil force that is destroying the entertainment industry. This blame has been put on since the invention of the Internet and its file sharing ability. It has recently been observed that a significant number of reasons can help in proving that piracy does have a good effect on the society. Result – Distributing the three major entertainment industries such as the music industry, gaming industry and the Movie production industry the research helps in proving the question about why is piracy good to the society. Piracy is not only the back bone of the entertainment business but is also the backbone of the internet as by doing critical analysis we find that it even protects us from the government. Conclusions - A theoretical analysis, backed up by observation and intense reading and understanding of how the Internet and the piracy works we can conclude that the piracy has had good effects on the entertainment industry. Table of Contents Abstract……………………………………………………………………… 2 Table of Contents…………………………………………………………... 3 ...
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...HUM 186 Week 4 – The internet Ethicial and Legal issues Get Tutorial by Clicking on the link below or Copy Paste Link in Your Browser https://hwguiders.com/downloads/hum-186-week-4-internet-ethicial-legal-issues/ For More Courses and Exams use this form ( http://hwguiders.com/contact-us/ ) Feel Free to Search your Class through Our Product Categories or From Our Search Bar (http://hwguiders.com/ ) HUM 186 Week 4 The Internet: Ethical and Legal Issues The “Information Superhighway”, or Internet, is a powerful medium for today’s information driven society. From its humble beginnings as a series of networks established to help the military and government share resources, it has become a place for people to engage in commerce and also for people to interact socially in both business and personal faculties. Along with the excellent opportunities for meaningful communication in this new atmosphere, the Internet has evolved as an open, democratic cyber society marked by free speech and volunteerism. It is a community gathering place for people to share ideas, concerns, stories and opinions, and to give help and assistance to one another. (Mills-Scofield) There has also arisen a series of problems. Whenever any major development in society is conceived, such as when telephones were introduced, problems ensue. The Internet, because of its modern nature is not really well dealt with when it comes to existing ethical and moral issues...
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...grew up with the internet. They hear stories from their parents and grandparents about the good old days. I don’t know how many times I have heard the line “I never had Facebook or Twitter when I was your age” at family dinners. As a technology that has been rooted into our culture, we need to ask ourselves: how is this technology effecting us? In his essay “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” Nicholas Carr tackled this very question. Carr has a very different answer than I do. Nicholas Carr will attempt to teach you to be skeptical of the internet’s potentially negative effects on your mind. Carr has taken the easier route of criticizing a relatively new technology without offering any alternative suggestions or...
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...Ads by Google ► Internet Dating ► Dating Chat Rooms ► Phone Dating ► Children Stories Home Our Blog About Us Contact Us Search Welcome to the Dangers of Internet Dating The day has come when internet dating is considered a legitimate way of meeting new people in the endless search for the right person. Chat rooms have replaced bar rooms, and internet dating sites and personal ads no longer have the "stigma" that they once did. You may still get a raised eyebrow when telling people you are using the internet for your search for the perfect date, but no where close to the reaction you would have gotten years ago. Internet dating has gained popularity by leaps and bounds, and unfortunately, so have the dangers and horror stories some have encountered. The anonymity of internet dating has afforded con artists a new playground for scams, and has allowed people to be anyone they think you want them to be because they are engaging you primarily through the written word. This site is not meant to bring forth the message that its impossible to find love through internet dating, but to inform people of the dangers that are out there. Internet dating is still a relatively new way of people connecting with people from all over the globe, and people need to understand the dangers out there so they can make their search a safe one. Included in this site or stories from those that have been there, and are willing to share their experiences with others in an...
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...possible to get a computer virus from browsing websites? Criteria Frequency Percentage Yes 85 85% No 9 9% Not Sure 6 6% . Analysis: 85% respondents thinks that you can get virus by browsing websites where 9% does not thinks so, where 6% are not sure about it. Interpretation: One can get virus is the computer while browsing the internet. If they have not installed the proper virus scanners and fire walk is their system. Therefore it is must to install the virus scanners to frequent the virus infect on your system. Also switch on the firewalls of your systems. Q7. How "anonymous" do you feel you are while using the Internet (such as browsing the web)? Criteria Frequency Percentage Completely anonymous 30 30% Mostly anonymous...
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...curse has sparked much debate. This is because the benefit of globalization always come with the drawbacks. For me, the advantages of the globalization are outweigh its disadvantages. Convincing argument can be made that globalization has led to advancement in technologies. This advancement has built the new world without boundaries. So, the communication can be made with any other parts of the world through technologies such as internet and telephone. Hence, ideas exchange can be done among intellectuals,journalists, scientists or ordinary people. As a result, the best ideas will be spread all over the world which led to enhance the world achievements. However, there are some disadvantages of the globalization. The absence of boundaries of the world through technologies could create harmful to the people. To illustrate, the access to the bad website in internet such as drugs and pornography could affect people minds. For example, recently, an actor was caught for being involved in drugs processing. He admitted that have learnt the process via internet. So, no boundaries of the world also affect people to change their behavior which related to...
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...The Impact Of The Internet On Our Daily Life Introduction: There is a big influence of technique on our daily life. Electronic devices, multimedia and computers are things we have to deal with everyday. Especially the Internet is becoming more and more important for nearly everybody as it is one of the newest and most forward-looking media and surely “the” medium of the future. Therefore we thought that it would be necessary to think about some god and bad aspects of how this medium influences us, what impacts it has on our social behaviour and what the future will look like. Content: Advantages i) The Internet changed our life enormously concerning the usage. You can use the Internet at home for personal or you at work for professional usage. Let’s come to the first. To spend a part of our day on the Internet is for many people quite normal. They use this kind of medium to get information about all kinds topics. Maybe some of them are interested in chatting, probably they are members of a community. Whatever you are looking for, you will find it. Even if you want to have very specific information, you will find it in a short time. Normally, you often have to send a letter, than you have to wait for the reception of the reply, or you have to make some telephone calls and so on. In any case, the traditional way is the longer one. To put your own information on the Internet is also possible. Create your own homepage, tell other users about your interests, what you want,...
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...Social Network Is social networking a bad thing? Going back in time to about forty years ago, there was no such thing as social networking. Technology has become a major part of society. It has also impacted the youth of this generation. Now social networking is a part of most teenagers’ life, which most times lead into an addiction. My article is titled, Study Finds Teenagers’ Internet Socializing Isn’t Such a Bad Thing by Tamar Lewin (676). Although it captivates its reader’s attention with the use of logos and ethos, the evidence used in it, and its appeal to the audience, the purpose of this article is not entirely effective. It lacks information (evidence and support), about the main subject, which would answer the question, “How does internet socializing benefit teenagers?” The use of egos and logos was thorough and well used in this article. For example, in the article, Ms. Ito, a research scientist in the department of informatics at the University of California, Irvine, said that some parental concern about the dangers of Internet socializing might result from a misperception (Lewin 677). This is a good example of logos, and how the author integrates the information of credible sources. The author also integrates the studies of the MacArthur Foundation, which is part of a $50 million project on digital and media learning (Lewin 677). This leads to show that Tamar Lewin put logical and legitimate sources in his article. Tamar Lewin himself seems credible in the...
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