Welcome to the User's Opinion Page

I asked some of the people I knew on the net to send me their opinions on internet regulation. Here are four of the best answers.

Grave Digger's Opinion


MY THOUGHTS: a kinda history/opinion/I don't know The fedral government helped to create this great internet. They set the early standards by which we use the internet. But times have changed. The CDA laws where required to help set an early law of the network. But it all changed in 1993 with the web. With the invention of a graphical user interface we now had a greater issue. Pornograph. and its anonymous access. Unlike other Internet media it was the first completely anonymous access. Anyone could view pornograph if they could get on the net. Until the CDA of 96 anyone could optain it. Suddenly the day of the great black out. All web pages are to turn BLACK for 24 hours. Netscape turns thier web site black and has 1 graphic a rotating blue ribbon. Had my page been up a black page would have appeared. The big hole in the CDA of 96 is that pornography and profanity could be used only if the two partys involded were of legal age. In the bbs world sysop enjoyed the freedom of this hole. The adult web community then put up a verification system that require a login name and password. From a provider who had conformed age. So now here we are only 3 months after the CDA of 96 was out lawed.
OPINION: We live in fast changing times. We were once a free thinking, never thought a thing about sex country but we have been changed by time, and government. I believe that if we are a global world lets live like we want to.



Turtle's opinion


I think the government should stay far far away from the internet! They didn't care when the internet first became a big thing and now they want to get into it. There is no room for any sort of law or order in the internet. It is the users who started it, and the users who use it, therefore it should be the users who rule it and it should be there say about what is allowed and what isn't! So, whenever I see Lenny seat Clinton or Dole warmly at a table in #denny's, the I will think they can have a lil' say about what goes on! Okay, that's part of my opinion :)



Jester's Opinion


the user point of view.
ok let me put it this way I don't think it is the goverments place to tell me what the hell i can and can't view! they have enuff things to worry about other than if i am going to a site that has something the do not think is ethicly correct! and on that point who the f#@! are they to tell me what is ethicly correct for me to view?


the parents view.

The goverment can barely run this country right i don't want them telling me what me son can or can't view.plus it is totally the parents responseabilty to keep an eye on what his/her child views while they are surfing the web! there are many great products like webnanny and cyberpolice that let parents restrict certain types of sites unless a password is entered and it should be up to the parent to go and get this kinda prog if they think thier child is going to veiw a site that is not proper for younger viewers!



Anonymous Opinion

Hmmmm now.... I can answer you very simply (and yes annonymous would be good :) ) I think the government should stay out of the internet completely. Kinda reminds me of a Bible quote "Don't throw the first stone unless your slate is clean" In other words, they should clean up their house before they want to regulate and clean up my house!



mith's(the author's)Opinion

My thoughts on the Regulation can be best summed up in a quote from Henry Daivd Thoreau: "The law will bever make men free; it is men who have to make the law free." By "protecting our children," we are loosing some of our freedom. The olny thing that will come from internet regulation, is people moving their "indecent" material out of the United States. What have you accomplished then? Are the children any safer if the site is foreign or domestic? The only good answer is for the parents of the children spend some quality time together, and let the parents choose what their kids see, not the government.





I would like to thank everyone who sent me an opinion. I chose these because they gave the best reasons and clearest opinions.