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Foil 20 What about Pornography and Viruses on the Web?

From Untitled presentation Jamesville DeWitt Middle School 5th Grade / Modifications for Java Academy Talk -- 2 April 97. by Geoffrey C. Fox


There is surely "inappropriate" information on the WWW
There are "bugs" on the WWW -- for instance electronic credit card numbers can be snooped and you can download software conaining viruses
On the other hand, many magazines have inappropriate material (e.g. smoking ads) and there is substantial credit card fraud using paper version of banking
Most things in life have a downside which can be exploited if you want
Society learns to live with a certain amount of "risk" (downside)
I don't see downside of Web as particularly bad



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