Regulation & the Internet

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Content Porn, Politics, SPAM, VoIP, Music, etc. Political / pornographic / VoIP / SPAM – “… as we open up Internet access, we need to allay the concerns of parents on children gaining easy access to websites containing pornographic and other potentially harmful content. Users in Singapore continue to have access to all material available on the Internet, with the exception of a few high impact illegal websites.” http://app9.internet.gov.sg/scripts/MDA/f aq/faq.asp?category=Internet

Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing (CAN-SPAN) Act 2003 – “The pornographers, the herbal Viagra merchants, the relatives of dead Nigerian dictators -- it may get rid of them…But the legitimate marketers now have a federally mandated stamp of approval. They can send each of us as much e-mail as they want until they're asked to stop.”http://www.wired.com/news/politics/0,12 83,61928,00.html?tw=wn_story_top5

Number of SPAMs per user per day 45 40 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

Source: Ferris Research.


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