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| The internet, good or bad? | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: Dec 12 2006, 08:41 PM (392 Views) | |
| Jane | Dec 12 2006, 08:41 PM Post #1 |
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Board Bitch!
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Good I hear you all cry! I mean without it none of us would know each other, none of us would have this bizarre second home we call our garden. But today at work a case got me thinking. Before the internet became common place there must have been less crime committed. Think about it. This guy was going through a divorce, drinking too much, and he started looking at internet porn, eventually leading to him viewing child porn and being aroused by it. As far as we know he never did this to anyone in real life, he just got off on the images online. Which is bad enough I agree, but if the internet didn't exist he could never have fed his fantasises with these images. Don't get hung up on my example, we'll do paedophilia another time! But it must be easier for these people to get access to material and to chat with kids online than ever before. Look at all the credit card fraud and the crime that is organised online. Look at terrorism websites, look at teenagers being encouraged to starve themselves, or self harm or even kill themselves. But it's free speech, it's free information and information can arm us and help us in our lives. People are more clued up than ever about what is happening in the world, the internet makes us a more united world because everyone is just a mouse click away. Email helps people keep in touch. I couldn't imagine life without the internet, to me it is an enrichment, especially this place. But are these things worth all the extra crime and the bad stuff that comes with free speech? |
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| la anaconda de chocolatee | Dec 12 2006, 09:56 PM Post #2 |
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obviously I love the internet, but in one sense for me, sometimes the internet is bad in that I go through periods where I am kind of addicted to it, I waste way too much of my day on it. Like when I was into doing the soap opera role playing, then I was addicted and I was on it every spare minute I could be. I was spending too much time at work online role playing, when I was still with Darwin it was one of our issues cause he always complained that I was in the internet too much (though I had the complaint that he spent too much time being out playing soccor and drinking with his friends, but that is another topic). Right now I dont spend nearly as much time on it. I am still on it for at least a few minutes everyday, but now that I work two jobs and go to school I dont have as much free time and I am also finding other things to do with the free time that I do have besides be online which is good. I do some days still spend too much time on it at work, it is easy for me to get sucked in and allow the time to go by. So the question is: is the internet too addicting, or do I just have very low will power to keep myself off of it when I should be doing other things?: As far as Jane's point about crime: I dont know if I agree with that. I mean the internet does provide other avenues for crime but as far as identity theft goes, there has always been multiple forms of identity theft and there will continue to be with or without the internet. These type of criminals are always coming up with new ways to steal people's identities, so even if there was no internet, this type of crime would still be rampent and constantly reinventing itself. And as for child pornography and pedofiles, I have the same arguement. If a man is pedofile, they are going to find ways to watch children have sex or to molest children even if the internet didnt exist. If they really have that desire in them, they will no matter what. THe internet is just an easier avenue to do it. I really dont like though that people can learn how to build bombs, how to kill people, how to commit suicide, how to become anorexic, how to become a member of a hate group like the skinheads and shit. I dont agree with this stuff having access on the internet. But then again if this stuff is taken away, then so would my right to say that George Bush is a fucktard and I hate him, he needs to be impeached. Freedom of speech is just that, pure and total freedom which unfortunately includes everyone and everything, even the bad and the harmful. |
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| Julesy | Dec 12 2006, 10:14 PM Post #3 |
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I agree with Michele. If you dont have that type of behaviour already present, you wouldnt go and seek it out.It has to interest you on some level. Me? All the message boards I go to all relate to Authors (dork!) I do admit I spend alot of time online, but it doesnt interfere with my relationships in my own little world. As far as horrible disturbing sites, I think its sick, but nothing is goin to stop it. People who fall prey to it, are sick in thier own right. |
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| Noname | Dec 12 2006, 10:49 PM Post #4 |
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I agree with the girls. The internet has united people in way that have never been united. But good can not exist without evil. We must accept the good along with the bad. Pedophiles and all that will see their day in Heaven when God sends them to hell where they belong. |
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| Jane | Dec 14 2006, 10:18 PM Post #5 |
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Board Bitch!
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I do think people are more able to access information than ever before and this is a good thing. |
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| Kehlili | Dec 14 2006, 11:21 PM Post #6 |
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The internet for me has been vital. As someone who travels regularily, it saves me from needing to get a travel agent. Give me an hour, some cities, and a time frame and I can beat any agency price! And to have to go get all the train info? When I can just go to trainline.com or whatnot? Also, because I travel so much and go to school so far away from home it allows me to keep in contact with people that otherwise would have fallen away from my life. Deciding to live in England for four months would have seemed a lot scarier if there wasn't e-mail and im. And thats also where the keeping in contact comes in, I can't afford to call my close friends from Manc whenever I feel like and the time difference makes it really hard too (since they insist on going out every night haha). But with msn and myspace, keeping in touch is so simple. The internet also makes my job at horizon a lot easier, do you know how much faster and easier it is to do an insurance referal on-line as opposed to on paper is? Pretty soon, thanks to the internet, all of our patient medical files will accessable from any office, and I believe to a hospital which the patient decides on. This will allow us to give better weekend care (we have a weekend office in goshen since most of our branches are not open on sat or sun) as well as help with emergencies. As for credit card theft and identity theft, despite all the news about it online, it still primarily takes place in real life, in ppl not disposing of their info properly and stuff. Don't ask me to cite that I just remember overhearing it on one of my mom's news shows lol The internet is just like knowledge and lines of communication in general, its not intrinsically evil or good, its what people do with it. On the whole, I think people are using it for good. Although I would like to say, I don't like how it makes just another excuse for the government to watch what we say and think. Every im on msn and aim is filtered through a government database and if you have so many "keywords" they read it. Same with e-mails (I know g-mail especially does this). There is also the threat of the loss of jobs due to internet shopping but I doubt that stores will ever really close because of the whole shopping experience and the internet has created more jobs than I think it could ever destroy. I mean how many ppl now have jobs fixing computers destroyed by viruses? haha |
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| Noname | Dec 17 2006, 07:47 PM Post #7 |
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Glorious Witch
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So, what we are all saying is that we need the internt even if we take the bad along with it. |
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| Julesy | Dec 18 2006, 02:28 PM Post #8 |
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deliciously domestic
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NEXT!! |
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| la anaconda de chocolatee | Dec 18 2006, 02:47 PM Post #9 |
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Skittle Skank
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this one wasnt much of a debate! |
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| Julesy | Dec 18 2006, 02:51 PM Post #10 |
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deliciously domestic
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i know! it didnt even get past one page!
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| Jane | Dec 18 2006, 10:11 PM Post #11 |
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Board Bitch!
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Hey stop making fun of my debate!!! I'm unpinning this, someone else do the next one plz! |
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| Auntie Maine | Dec 21 2006, 01:31 PM Post #12 |
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None of us would know each other without the internet. |
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