Parents and child safety experts concerned about the online activities of teenagers have been particularly nervous about a Web site called Stickam, which allows its , registered users, age 14 and older, to participate in unfiltered live video chats using their Web cameras. On its Web site and in press reports, Stickam says that it is owned by Advanced Video Communications, or AVC, a three-year-old Los Angeles company that sells video conferencing and e-commerce services to businesses in Japan and other Asian countries. But according to Alex Becker, a former vice president at Stickam, and internal company documents, Advanced Video Communications is managed and owned by Wataru Takahashi, a Japanese businessman who also owns and operates DTI Services, a vast network of Web sites offering live sex shows over Web cameras.
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He had already made history. Before those revolutions could be realized, two major questions had to be answered: How could ARPANET expand, and what the hell were people supposed to do with it, anyway? The first problem was addressed by internet icons like Vinton Cerf, who developed the protocols that would allow different networks to connect to one another and form a larger network of networks. Ray Tomlinson worked on the second problem. New networks sprouted up across the U. In , the first public ISP, Telenet, was launched. Then in , we crossed the Rubicon. By the end of the decade, the internet and the web became synonymous as millions of people got online to chat, shop, learn, discuss, innovate, meme, and read lists like this one. So to properly tell the story of how the internet grew up, here are the 50 sites that made it what it is today: a wonderful, weird, occasionally terrible, but always transformative place to be.
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Internet pornography was the first big internet safety topic to make news, and it has remained largely out of favor among the popular press ever since. The societal costs of pornography are staggering. The financial cost to business productivity in the U. According to Patrick F. Fagan, Ph. Pornography hurts adults, children, couples, families, and society. Among adolescents, pornography hinders the development of a healthy sexuality, and among adults, it distorts sexual attitudes and social realities.
How would you best describe that thing you're looking for? While some European countries block the illegal content mostly child pornography websites , other are considering implementing a similar measure through a hidden list. However the past month has shown, one more time if necessary, that usually the list of any blocked content will leak and thus the allegedly blocked content will become widely available. Belgium is one of the new countries considering such a list. The protocol might extend to other illegal sites, such as hate and racism websites or Internet fraud. The federal police special division Federal Computer Crime Unit FCCU confirms that it detects yearly — child pornography websites hosted in foreign countries and the court procedure to block those sites is rarely used since it is too burdensome. It is unacceptable that the police gets a wild card to block certain websites at will.
