Bomb-making
The availability of bomb-making instruction on the Internet has been a cause célèbre amongst lawmakers and politicians anxious to curb the Internet frontier by censoring certain types of information deemed "dangerous" which is available online. "Simple" examples of explosives created from cheap, readily available ingredients are given. The Federal Bureau of Investigation reports that there were 1,699 criminal bombings in 1989 and 3,163 in 1994. Terrorism plots involving homemade explosives have been foiled in Boston, London, Bali and Oslo. Moral philosophy Supporters of digital rights argue that managers of Internet traffic do not have a right to deep packet inspection, the automated system of analyzing what information is being transmitted, for example refusing to deliver a packet with the words "bomb instructions" and alerting authorities to the internet service provider ISP that requested the information. They suggest that "we never seem to hear" about how the same instructi ...
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