Freedom of Connection – Freedom of Expression: The Changing Legal and Regulatory Ecology Shaping the Internet by William H. Dutton Anna Dopatka Michael Hills Ginette Law and Victoria Nash Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford 1 St Giles Oxford OX1 3JS United Kingdom 19 August 2010 A report prepared for UNESCO’s Division for Freedom of Expression, Democracy and
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Chapter 7 : Moral Issues 7. 1 The Environment 7. 2 Life 7. 3 Rearmament and War 7. 4 Business Ethics 7. 5 Sexuality and the Family 7. 6 Discrimination 7. 7 Freedom of Information 7. 8 Science and Technology Chapter Overview This chapter will discuss the contemporary moral issues. There are eight main sub-headings and examined in turn. Students may not only learn about moral facts, principles and theories, but also some important moral
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Criminal Law Making in the New Global Information Society: A Critical Comparative Study of the Adequacies of Computer-Related Criminal Legislation in the United States, the United Kingdom and Singapore Warren B. Chik* Introduction Computer and Internet usage is on the rise due to lower costs of computer ownership and connectivity as well as faster and easier accessibility. As it is another mode of commercial and personal transaction and one that is heavily dependent on interaction through computers
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Cyber security is gaining tremendous attention nowadays due to the increasing use of internet, computers by the media and various public and private institutions. They recognize the terrible impacts with the cyber attacks. Cyber security involves preventative methods which are used to protect information from being stolen or attacked. Cyber attack is a crime that involves a computer and a network for stealing and attacking of information. It is an attack where a person uses a computer to commit
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2 I have chosen to my term paper on Cyber Crime. I chose this topic because I myself have been a victim of this malicious crime in the past. With knowledge I can warn others. Cybercrime can only be described as illegal activity committed on the Internet. I thought it would be good for me to make myself aware of all the research behind this topic so that I will not be a victim again. Cybercrime is a very serious offense and a lot of people do not even realize they have been a victim of it. Cybercrime
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To what extent has Putin’s Russia become a Dictatorship? Mussolini once said that ‘Democracy is beautiful in theory; in practice it is fallacy’ (ERepublik, 2009) and to some extent, this could be seen as true. However, how is it that a dictatorship can be truly defined? In the English dictionary (Oxford Collins Dictionary, 2003), a dictatorship is defined as ‘a government by a dictator or dictators’ however, whilst this does hold some truth, in the context of this question, this definition is far
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seven days a week. Because of this, it is hard to keep specific statistics of how and when cyber bullying occurs. One million children and teens were harassed, threatened or subjected to other forms of cyber bullying on Facebook during the past year (Internet Safety). According to a survey conducted by i-Safe America, the statistics are as follows: thirty-five percent of kids have been threatened online, and one in five had it happen more than once. Twenty-one percent of kids have received mean or threatening
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Social Media Tools in E-Commerce The Internet allows individuals, companies, and entire organizations the ability to interact and socialize. Typically individuals are consumers on the web, looking for information, researching, and purchasing products. Through social media, consumers are advancing from content consumers to content producers. Instead of researching, people can post their ideas, their personal or business information online on websites such as Face-book, twitter, My-space, blogging
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Jason Toron Assignment #1 Sexual Autobiography 1. A.) Sexual topics were never oppressed in my house as I was growing up. Not only was it openly discussed in my home, but I think it was sort of embraced in a way. This is most likely due to my religious background. My family is Jewish and raised me as so; therefore pre-marital sex is really non-existent in the Jewish faith. So I think my parents wanted to teach me what was what as I was maturing, so that way I could be prepared for future experiences
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two lives in denial that anything happened to her and refuses to remember it, while the younger one cannot help but flashback to what she witnessed every day since; the memory is imbedded her thoughts. An editor of Columbia University’s Health Q&A Internet Service “Go Ask Alice!” reassures that all survivors of
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