Internet 4.O Ms Wigley

Considering that the internet is an easy access to the world’s news and latest updates, there are also the dangers that could occur.  One of the dangers are cyber bullying, which take various forms including; sending hateful messages or even death threats to children, spreading lies about them online, making nasty comments on their social networking profiles, or creating a website to bash their looks or reputation. Most recently, cyber bullying has increased to posting videos to embarrass one another. Secondly, there are sexual predators; the online world opens the door for trusting young people to interact with virtual strangers - even people they would normally avoid in real life. Finally, Privacy Violation; Sites, commercial organizations and harassers of various kinds try to extract personal information from children surfing the web, usually wanting information like– name, age, address, telephone number, and the schools they attend. This type of information is often used for commercial purposes and, in more serious cases, for enticing and exploiting children. People could also take credit card details and use that information to access others account. There are much more dangers that can occur on the internet and some have not been revealed.
 
The main person/persons that should be in charge of the regulations should be the government and the internet service such as BT. However; it is a difficult thing to continue to check everything on the internet, illegal or illegal, because there are millions of sites and some sites are on the internet for limited time so they do not get caught if any illegal stuff on that site.

There are many restrictions available already, such as parents and legal documents before you send information off or allow other people to view your personal information on social sites such as Facebook, MySpace etc. Many of the documents you press “I agree” before continuing are not read by teenagers or adults and the “parental block”, many children have learnt to unblock them site because they are taught from friends or just their broad knowledge of the internet allows them to go on sites that they are not meant to be on.

Regulating the internet would need a new organisation because the internet is widely spread throughout the world it would be hard for a small number of groups to regulate it. More people would mean faster and more productive checks on the internet as a whole. Regulation could be monitored by separating the internet in different genres and checked daily or hourly because on the internet updates occur every few seconds.

The drawbacks to having internet regulations are that it goes against the free will of people expressing themselves through the internet. The restrictions would stop people from allowing them to express their knowledge with other people. For example,  on Wikipedia if you was unable to ‘edit’ the information there and add more relevant information it would not allow the readerships to expand on their knowledge.