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Government Censorship

Government Censorship

Thesis: Government Censorship would damage the atmosphere of the freedom to express ideas on
the Internet; therefore, government should not encourage censorship.

Introduction

I. In the Internet community, there is a large volume of technical terms. For this reason, it is first
necessary to examine the terminology specific to Internet.

A.The internet is a world wide computer network.
1.Electronic mail (email), which is one component of the Internet, approximates person
to person letters, memoranda, notes and even phone calls.
2.Another term that is often used is electronic news (enews/Usenet), enews is a
broadcast, free to the Internet medium.
3.The term FTP is also frequently used. File transfer protocol (FTP) started as an
Internet archival and retrieval medium, somewhat analogous to traditional libraries.
B.The world-wide web (WWW), which is another component of the Net, can be used
to "p...

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