Monday, April 27, 2009

Topic: A Dilemma

10-second review: How can dangerous information be put responsibly on the Internet? Should we allow the freedom to put dangerous information--bomb-making equipment--on the Internet? With freedom must come responsibility.


Source: Philadelphia Inquirer. (April 25, 1995), B2.


Comment: I’m afraid it’s a vicious circle. We give people the freedom to put dangerous information on the Internet, like how to make a bomb, and the people who use it will use it to destroy our freedom—and our lives. Of course the same people, if they cannot get that information on the Internet, will find it somewhere else. Maybe we need to discuss in social studies the meaning of freedom—and, especially, responsibility. I wonder if the concept can be developed without preaching. RayS.

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