Has the Internet done more harm than good? The internet topic has done more harm than good is important because it has been debated countless times and is still ongoing. There are hundreds of reasons to support both sides' arguments. The internet is such an important place; it builds bridges to other countries and people, but it also destroys people's lives. Over 80,000 people fall victim to phishing scams. The governments of our countries use it to spy and collect information on people; everyone uses it everywhere. On a global scale it is not a question of whether the Internet has worked well or badly because it is so highly demanded that the world simply wouldn't get around without it. However, what is questioned about the Internet is the way it is used. People all over the world exploit the Internet to take money and other things from people. Many governments are considering censoring the Internet to protect people from phishing, scams and fraud. The problem governments have when they censor the Internet is that they take away the ability to browse the web and do research. If a country censored its people's internet, such as China, it would face enormous amounts of unrest and the government's popularity would greatly decline. The ability for anyone to post anything online without barriers has produced a wealth of information that not only could be incorrect but could also prove criminal, discriminatory, or offensive if it were available to the general population. This type of information is usually not widely published via offline channels, but with the invention of the Internet it is easily accessible to anyone like never before, and that is quite dangerous. In some countries, the Inter...... middle of paper... even if you exist in a library, it now only takes a few minutes to search from your home. The Internet practically eliminates the hassle of going to the library alone because there is such a large community that always adds a huge store of information. Most of the negative aspects of the Internet have existed before, such as "adult content". While the Internet has made it much easier to find these adult materials and fall into traps set by predators, it has barely discovered and put into practice the idea of children watching adult content. Kids were buying adult magazines from random places decades before downloading the pictures and looking at them on the Internet. The main point is that someone would be able to build a bomb from scratch without the Internet, the only thing the Internet does is speed up this process.
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