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Regulating The Web
by Paul on 07/22/09 at 07:13 PM ET
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from Chris Zelkovich of the Toronto Star,
I’ve always felt the Internet ranked as possibly the best technological advance of this age. I’ve also felt it also ranks as the worst. For every great use of it, there’s at least one that manages to shine a light on the slimiest elements of our society.
The latter was on full display earlier this week when video of ESPN reporter Erin Andrews, captured by a hidden camera as she walked around naked in her hotel room, found its way on to the web….
It lays bare the Internet culture that believes everything is for public consumption, libel is a concept from the past and common decency is something your grandmother worried about. It’s a culture that preaches everything is designed for entertainment, whether it’s video of people suffering serious injuries doing stupid things or invasions of privacy of the most heinous degree…
I’ve never favoured regulating the Internet. Until now.
I can’t see how the web can be regulated, but I can see you, the reader, visitor or member, making a decision on whether to visit a site or not. Just like in everyday life, I have found people who surf the web are gullible, uneducated or just don’t have any morals and they will never stop doing what they do.
It is also up to the person in charge of the website to monitor and control the readers who visit. If you are going to post material like what is mentioned above, what kind of visitors do you think you are going to attract?
In my mind, not the type I want to be associated with.
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