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Will Internet Escape Regulation and Remain “Free?”
Half Say Regulate Internet - 73% Want Criminal Penalties for Harrassment
An unasked question is whether or not the so-called Fairness Doctrine should apply to the internet.
Forty-Nine percents believe that the federal government should regulate the Internet the same way it does radio and television, according to a new Rasmussen Reports national survey. Thirty-five percent (35%) disagree, and 16% are undecided.
Americans also believe overwhelmingly — 73% yes to 13% no — that it should be a crime to harass someone on the Internet. The findings come as a Missouri woman faces an unprecedented federal prosecution for allegedly setting up an account for a fictitious 16-year-old on an online social networking site to harass the 13-year-old daughter of a neighbor who committed suicide after being rejected by the fictitious boy. Seventy-one percent (71%) have some awareness of that case, with only 25% saying they know nothing about it at all. Women (79%) more than men (67%) think Internet harassment should be a crime.
Women also feel much more strongly about federal regulation of the Internet, with 55% in favor, 25% opposed and 20% undecided. Men reject federal regulation by a small margin - 46% to 42% — with 12% unsure.
One out of four Americans (26%) say they have a social networking account with a site such as MySpace and Facebook, but 69% say they do not. Not surprisingly younger people are more likely to have such an account: 65% of men and 45% of women under 40 say they network socially this way, as opposed to only 24% of men and 15% of women who are 40 and older.
Nearly one out of two adults (48%) say they use the Internet every day or almost every day, but 25% say they rarely, if ever, use it. Income is clearly a factor, with the likelihood of Internet usage rising with the level of the respondent’s annual earnings.
Race also is a factor, with 53% of whites saying they use the Internet every day or nearly every day, as opposed to only 28% of blacks. Twenty-one percent (21%) of whites and 39% of blacks say they rarely or never use the Internet.
The Movie CONTACT Set the Scene - Now What
Hello ET we are listening
Astronomical observatories are teaming up for an unprecedented quest to find out whether there is life in outer space.
The project, led by Japanese astronomers, will bring together a dozen or more observatories from all over the country to study one star that researchers see as a potential home to an extraterrestrial civilization. Their searches have not been too fruitful so far.
Multiple participants will observe one star, to check on whether the suspicious signals received are actually from the natural world adding that they have not decided on which star to observe. The nearest star is 45 light years away, one light year is slightly less than 7 billion miles, in any case a signal will take 45 year to get here.