INTRODUCTION Since 1990 the technology landscape has been dominated by Internet gatekeepers which provide tools like search engines and portals that help users access and navigate the Internet. Like Yahoo, Microsoft, and Google have expanded into markets like China or Saudi Arabia they have been asked to support various censorship …
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INTRODUCTION In what follows, the main focus will be on al Qaeda’s use of the Web as a base for recruitment and as an effective tool of radicalization, and to a minor degree, as a base of operations. In the first part, I outline the professionalism which surrounds the al-Qaeda …
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INTRODUCTION Child pornography has been defined as any visual depiction of sexually explicit conduct involving children under the age of 18” (Kierkegaard, 2008), and is a persistent form of social deviation conflicting with the established social norms in any society. Social or humankind deviations can be defined as actions, behaviors, …
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INTRODUCTION Virtual worlds are becoming a more important and prevalent part of our real world with each passing month. Shirky (2010, p37) argues that the old view of online as a separate space, cyberspace, apart from the real world is fading. Now that computers and other internet-enabled devices (such as …
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