Questions, comments, feedback, translations from other languages, etc. The Washington Post, Newsweek, CNN, and other media have done stories about the importance of the Internet in mobilising support around the Zapatista movement in Mexico. He argues that the only way to counter such networks is to create government networks that are more effective than the networks of social activists. Concern about sex and violence on online services and BBSs has led the Federal Government to seek public comment on draft legislation regulating online content. It is not clear, however, how intermediate agents such as Internet access providers, gateways and database replicators will fare under some of these provisions.
Confucian values are no safeguard against the impact of new media technologies.
Subversive messages have long been supplied by the Voice of America, CNN, and BBC - and now via the Internet. Many Internet users fear that individuals could face public humiliation, harassment, or damage their careers if some information about their Internet usage patterns became public. Though information about individual behaviour has always been collected, the tremendous breadth and depth of information about Internet usage raises new concerns. New digital art forms, such as on the Web or CD-ROM, present a unique range of possibilities and limitations, and can be compared to the invention of photography. There is no limitation of space and no uniformed guards warning you not to touch the work of art.