Internet Service Providers (ISPs), and governments at different levels. Parents, schools, commercial companies, operators of Internet cafés or Use of specific people are as varied as their goals. The kinds of people and institutions who try to restrict the Internet Who is filtering or blocking the Internet? That the blocking is appropriate or in their interest. The latter case causes significant conflicts andĭisagreements when the people whose access is restricted don't agree Spam-filtering tools to prevent spam from being delivered to their ownĮ-mail accounts), but others involve restricting how other people can use the Internet and what those other peopleĬan and can't access. Some of these concerns involve allowing people to control their ownĮxperience of the Internet (for instance, letting people use Materials, drugs or alcohol, gambling and prostitution, and informationĪbout religious, political or other groups or ideas that are deemed to Restricting access to materials or online activities that areīanned or regulated in a specific jurisdiction (for example a country orĪn organization like a school) such as explicit sexual or violent.The property of their employer, or from using their work time or anĮmployer's technical resources for personal activities. Preventing employees from sharing information that is viewed as.Controlling the size of the flow of data any one user is able to access at one time.Reducing the barrage of unwanted commercial offers by e-mail or on the Web.Protecting children from material perceived as inappropriate, or limiting their contact with people who may harm them.There are many different motivations for these attempts. Internet has been paralleled by attempts to control how people use it. Internet and certain kinds of deception and harassment made much easierīy the technology, it should not surprise anyone that the growth of the With all of the best and worst of human nature reflected on the Not everyone wants to let the whole world in People who are malicious, greedy, unscrupulous, dishonest or merely rudeĪs it is to you and your 12-year-old child and your grandmother. Itself, it is vast, complex and often scary. Grandmother can send you her special apple pie recipe by e-mail in timeīut the Internet does not contain only relevant and helpfulĮducational information, friendship and apple pie. Managers in offices around the world, who can help you improve it your Research her school project or make friends with kids in otherĬountries you can present your new product design simultaneously to top In the capital, or even in another country your 12-year-old can May save your life by sending your test results to a medical specialist You contract a rare disease on vacation, the remote village hospital Opens up many wonderful opportunities for improving people's lives. In all of these places, the possibility of connecting to the world Of the competition, your grandmother's house. Your closest colleagues the new product design that will put you ahead Your 12-year-old's bedroom, the conference room where you are showing Present in unexpected places: a hospital in a remote mountain village, Unimaginably vast portion of human knowledge and activity suddenly Internet and where it is available has the effect of making an The unbelievable growth in the past several years of what is on the More information in more places than ever imagined Recombined and shared with small or large audiences in waysįundamentally different than the communications media available in 1948. "seek, receive and impart information", not only across borders but atĪmazing speeds and in forms that can be copied, edited, manipulated, The global phenomenon of the Internet would expand people's ability to When those words were written sixty years ago, no one imagined how This right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive, and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers. One of the fundamental rights the Universal Declaration described, in Article 19, was the right to freedom of speech:Įveryone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression
Shall have and feel the moral support of the entire world. … I canĪgitate against my government, and if she does not fulfill her pledge, I
Government pledged itself to promote, achieve, and observe.
Principles of human rights and fundamental freedoms are spelled outĪuthoritatively and in precise detail. What these rights are we were never told before, either in the Charter To achieve respect for and observance of human rights. Scholar Charles Habib Malik described it to the assembled delegates asĮvery member of the United Nations has solemnly pledged itself Universal Declaration of Human Rights launched a new era. On 10 December 1948, the adoption by the General Assembly of the