This new technology is used as much as word processing programs, and more often than financial record-keeping programs. On broader questions, the polling found that Americans continue to have positive feelings about high-tech in general. As in last years's survey, two out of three respondents said they like computers and technology. Privacy concerns also continue, however. In their social attitudes, online users differ from average Americans and they also are unlike people of similar demographic backgrounds who do not go online.
Online users are more tolerant people.
They are more accepting of homosexuality. They are more in favor of free expression with regard to the kinds of books that should be allowed in public libraries and also to the presence of pornography on the Internet. On other political dimensions, online users are much the same as non-users. For example, their views about government regulation of business and federal welfare for the needy were not much different from that of the public at large. They are more supportive of government regulation of business, but they hold the same views as non-users about social welfare.