Computer Ethics

Running head : COMPUTER ETHICS

Computer Ethics

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Computer Ethics

Exercise 1

A bill was passed in Congress , aimed to protect the rights of children and to limit their exposure to illegal and immoral internet content . The bill created a new type of federal crime : according to COPA , anyone making communication for commercial purposes with minors (i .e children ) that includes any material harmful to minors without restricting such access should be penalized (CBS , 2007 . The new bill had to protect children

from accessing pornography sites and had to become an effective form of legal censorship . One of the major benefits of the bill was in that it would serve an effective filter of internet content for children

Needless to say , parents do not always have an opportunity to check what their children do online . Unrestricted access to illegal and immoral Internet material is likely to result in adverse psychological effects in children . Today , when the Internet is becoming a widely accepted form of leisure and pastime , more and more children engage in various types of online activities , many of which are either harmful or undesirable . As a result , more and more children are being exposed to online pornography - in most cases , by accidentally encountering sexually explicit web sites while surfing the net (CBS , 2007 Statistically , almost every second child recognizes having seen online pornography in the last 12 months (CBS , 2007 . Most children state that the pornography content they saw online was unsolicited (CBS...