Chapter 5

5.4- Two sites are unintentionally blocked are The home page of Yale University's biology department and sites about Middlesex and Essex.
5.5- Two methods that are used by governments to control access to information are to censor sexual websites as well as pass the communications decency Act of 1996 which attempted to keep the access to information limited and made people subject to fines if they access obscene or indecent materials.
5.7- Two reasons people object to spam is that it often contains viruses, and most of the time the ads are false promoting 'get rich' symbols which are suppose to be appealing and they add up over time and make people opposed to them. Another reason is that spam often includes misleading material and unsolicited commercial email which makes a lot of emails go out.
5.11- I think the policy that is appropriate for elementary schools are that they block and restrict students from accessing sites and information that have explicit material including bad language, sexual content, or violent content. However I think high school is a lot different, students are more mature and are able to handle sexual and violent content unlike elementary school students. High school students need to access information that may be deemed sexual, violent, or have bad language as part of their studies.
5.14- In my opinion the boy is clearly very stupid. He said that "These are dangerous sites" and that they are, any site that states how to make a bomb can not be trusted, probably not accurate, and is most likely made by an unauthorized official. They are very dangerous indeed because bombs are life threatening, so why did he enter the site? He claims that he is not a troublemaker, but any person who makes a bomb with then intent to set it off in their school, regardless with knowing how much force it would put off, they are absolutely a troublemaker. He is not a regular kid because most kids would not search how to make a bomb in the first place never mind make one and set it off in their school.
5.15- My reaction if a law was passed to restrict availability to that material is that it is absurd, their is freedom of speech for a reason, an atheist parent can restrict their child from viewing the material, but a law should not be passed to restrict it from other people. All of the restricting issues differ because some are harmful to people, some are views that people do not agree with, and some are material that people should not be able to view. Bomb making sites are harmful and dangerous to people, while sexual and violent content are material that young children should not be able to view. All of the sites are similar in the way that their is opposition against them and reasons why they should be restricted.
5.17- Issues that are raised by this problem are that terrorists and enemies would be able to hide their operations and beat the U.S. government advancing in intelligence. The posting of the sites should be illegal because it is detrimental to the United States because it makes terrorism more likely to happen. However it should be legal because people want to see everything that is going on across the world. I believe that the illegal argument is stronger because terrorism is a huge issue in the world and it has to be stopped at all costs.
5.18- Harris Interactive said that the recipients of the email signed up to receive it, and if that is the case than I believe that Harris is right and did nothing wrong. MAPS believed that they did not offer the proper amount of information to the recipients to send the information out. I believe Harris Interactive should win because there is no evidence against them and what they were doing was completely legal and descent.