Is the Internet a Bad thing?

[KillerPollo]

http://www.infowars.com/articles/bb/AOL_ad.htm

Thanks to the internet, your identity can be stolen, your home invaded and your savings robbed without anyone setting foot inside your door.

Images Travelling down the line image, stick men, revolving head, hand opening window as old couple and std sit at table in background, blue-print of house, house exploding.
 The internet is one of the most dangerous weapons every created. A way for the unhinged to spread evil, free of supervision or censorship.

Atom bomb, lies transmitter, b/w Nazis (3), skin-heads, KKK, Osama Bin Laden, headlines.


A place for mankind to exercise its darkest desires. Images Porn: silhouette, director viewing, close-up , girl looks at camera.

An open market where you can purchase anything you want. Images Products flash up and then baby with price tag.

Orwell was right. Images 1984 footage

The internet has taken us to a place where everything we do is watched, monitored and processed without us ever realising.

Images Kid on hobby-horse, surveillance cameras etc. Voice over Some people think the internet is a bad thing. Images View of old man looking at CCTV camera.

[KillerPollo]

Voted good, but it's not really good or bad. The internet is a tool, and like all tools it can be used for good or evil - the user can be good or bad, the tool can't.

I voted good myself. Without it, Any research that I do in school would mean that i'd probably have to spend hellish times in a library.

[KillerPollo]

I voted good.  A lot of the bad things you listed in your initial statement, such as identity theft, could occur before the internet.  You might be too young to remember, but back in the 70s and 80s, there was a big advertising push by banks and credit card companies to ensure that you not only received your carbon-copy receipts from the cashier, but also the carbon sheets themselves, so you could destroy them by hand.  Otherwise, it was possible for someone to pinch a few carbon pages that had a perfect imprint of your credit card number as well as your signature, and go to town, without you finding out until your next monthly bill.

Yes, but I thought that through the internet, This has become more of a problem. Oh and identity theft is only a state offence. My dad got his identity stolen once. They tracked down the evildoer, and it traced to NY.
So we call the cops. And a whole case opens up. Turns out there's not much the police could do, because it was "out of state"
IMO the law is making it easier for criminals to get away with such things.