Arguments
for my position: The internet has
little to no regulations in place that provide protection for
underage and
adolescent individuals.
Arguments #1: Cyber-bullying/Online
harassment is an example of the lack of internet regulations
“Pew Research Center survey in 2017, found that 41% of
Americans had been personally subjected to online harassment… in
a 2007
research study, they found that 32% of all teenagers who used
the internet had
experienced online victimization” (P.1, Choi, Kyung-Shick, et
al, ).
“Ngo and Paternoster (2011) study found that online
harassment by a non-stranger was associated with spending more
hours using
instant messaging and participation in virtual offending (e.g.,
make or give
another person a “pirated” copy of computer software or media
(music,
television show, or movie); access another person's account or
files without
his or her knowledge or permission to look at, add, delete,
change, or print
information or files; and look at pornographic or obscene
material)’ (P.1-2, Choi,
Kyung-Shick, et al, ).
Arguments
#2: Internet ads use the
internet to promote items to underage children
“Monitoring potential or
actual youth exposure is
increasingly challenging as the web evolves. Through social
networking sites,
an alcohol brand can upload its own content and user can upload
their own
content to the brands profile. Users can then interact with both
brand- and
user generated content, for instance, alcohol branded videos
they like on their
Facebook page…” (P.93 Jernigan & Rushman ).
“Around the world, governments are trying to figure
out how to regulate internet marketing… Russia recently banned
all alcohol
marketing… the Australian Medical Association has called for a
ban… describing
internet marketing of alcohol as ‘more powerful and less
controllable’ than
traditional advertising …” (P.94 Jernigan & Rushman,).
“77 percent of teens are on Facebook… many of those
teens may be on Facebook with a false age. 7.5 million of the 20
million teens
who accessed Facebook were 13. 5 million were under the age of
10” (P.94 Jernigan
& Rushman,).
Sources
Choi,
Kyung-Shick, et al. “Impacts of online risky behaviors and
Cybersecurity
Management on cyberbullying and traditional bullying
victimization among Korean
youth: Application of Cyber-Routine Activities Theory with
Latent Class
Analysis.” Computers in Human Behavior, vol. 100, Nov.
2019, pp. 1–10. EBSCOhost
Accessed 21 Sept. 2019
Jernigan, David H., and Anne E.
Rushman. “Measuring youth
exposure to alcohol marketing on social networking sites:
challenges and prospects.”
Journal of Public Health Policy, vol. 35, no. 1, 2014,
pp. 91–104. JSTOR,
www.jstor.org Accessed
21 Sept. 2019