What Is Internet Regulation?

What is Internet Regulation?

Internet regulation is mainly confining or controlling access to certain aspects or information. Internet regulation consists of mainly two categories; Censorship of data, and controlling aspects of the Internet. Most of the Internet regulation is imposed by the Government in an effort to protect the best interest of the general public and is concerned with some form of censorship. The internet is censored in order to enable adults to protect children from inappropriate material.

Who drives the Internet regulation in U.S?

All electronic communication in the USA is regulating by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).In general the United States, in line with the free speech principle expressed in the First Amendment, has minimal content regulations and that doesn’t mean they have any regulations for the Internet. The USA is the country with the most sophisticated regulations for the Internet. Its very superiority is exemplified in the fact that it has laws of such broad definitions that even without amendments, the Internet can be captured. For example, a computer user in the USA can go to jail for transmitting and receiving pornography. A three year Federal Bureau of Investigation crackdown that began in 1998 has resulted in 80 arrests, 66 convictions and more than 200 searches.

How Internet Regulation imposes in U.S

Net Neutrality and the Privatization of Internet Access: While the premature risk to Internet access came from government censorship and regulation, the U.S. private sector has taken benefit of a deregulated environment to control individual access to the Internet for business purposes, limiting access to competitors and establishing bandwidth limits to discourage practices like tormenting. In response to these concerns, activists have called for government policies that would promote net neutrality a relatively rare case in which the government has been asked by activists to intervene in order to prevent private sector civil liberties abuses.

Internet Access as an International Human Right: The Internet is an inherently democratic and transparent medium of communication. If keeping it free in an industrialized nation with a history of free speech is difficult, how hard is it to keep it free in countries that offer no significant free speech protections on a policy level? China, Iran, and North Korea have all restricted Internet access to varying degrees, presumably due to the fear that access to unfiltered information can destabilize regimes as it did in 2011, when the governments of Egypt and Tunisia collapsed under pressure from protestors who effectively used the Internet as an organizing tool.

Over the last few years, the World Wide Web has evolved

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