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Internet Regulation

The internet differs from the other types of mass media such as TV, radio, and newspaper because it is possible for all users to publish any kind of content. These various contents can be hosted by any ISP. The humongous size of the internet, its exponential growth and the liberated environment it represent make it very difficult to exert any kind of control on the content of the broadcast. Everything is more or less available on internet sites, from e-business to child pornography. This easy availability of any kind of material, including illegal or offending content (child and adult pornography, racial abuses, recipe books for wannabe terrorists, breaches of copyrights, etca) has led to a huge pressure for more control or regulation. Nevertheless, opinions are split on the subject for internet have always been seen by a majority of users as a territory of complete freedom. Moreover, internet regulations can also be used by dictatorships to censor freedom of information, argument that has always been used by the strong supporters of an unregulated Web.

Tim Berners-Lee, creator of the World Wide Web describe the nature of its invention as "a vision encompassing the decentralized, organic growth of ideas, technology, and societya it is a vision that provides us with new freedom, allows us to grow faster than we ever could when we were fettered by the hierarchal classification systems into which we bound ourselves," (Berners-Lee, 1999).

No need then to say that the very idea of regulating the use of internet, which is mainly conducted through access to the World Wide Web, would tend to restrain that vision. Those who argue that regulating the internet would be undesirable, join this opinion saying that "its unregulated nature, along with low entry costs, has encouraged commercial and social innovation and self-expression," (Berners-Lee, 1999). The internet should not face any sort of regulation because that would d

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