Week of 11/13

Last week in class we discussed several different topics concerning how the internet is effecting the world. It was really interesting discussing the deep web and how it can be used by hate groups and terrorists, like the Taliban, to provide information to their followers that is invisible to web users who don't know the URL for their sites. The topic of my article was internet porn. It was shocking to learn that 7 in 10 children have accidentally seen pornography on the internet, and many of those children were searching innocent topics, like water sports. That also brought up a discussion of what role the internet and search engines should play in protecting children from explicit materials.