Legacy of fear

As with its predecessor technologies, the Internet suffers from a certain "legacy of fear" about its impact on children, youth, and others.

As with cinema since the 1940s and TV since the 1950s, the Internet has been accused of promoting mindlessness; exposing people to pornography, violence, and other examples of society's lowest common denominators; and enabling sedentary behavior. The Internet is said to facilitate activities of society's hate groups and to teach children and others how to construct bombs and obtain weapons. Unlike some other mass media, the Internet is presently not universally available across socioeconomic strata due to cost and other barriers.

It is possible that this lack of universality has already contributed to existing information gaps between society's "haves" and "have-nots."


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