The Negative Impact of the Internet (1998, Chinese Information Center)      

Trivial ? But “refreshing” point of view:

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The Negative Impact of the Internet and Its Solutions

By Ru Guangrong, Chinese Information Center for Defense Science and Technology

The Chinese Defense Science and Technology Information Monthly

Issue 121, 5th Issue of 1998

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Internet contains the biggest resource of information in the entire world; second, it enables people to obtain an interactive mechanism to instantly communicate with each other.

As long as people develop certain desires, the information to satisfy such desires will quickly and continuously appear on the Internet.

And such information will gradually satisfy people’s desires for their material as well as spiritual demands.

Threats:

a.The Internet explicitly propagates and implicitly spreads western democratic values.

b.The Internet degrades and repudiates those countries, political parties, and

governments that have different ideologies from those of the West.

c.The Internet can be used as a tool to harm national sovereignty and interfere with other countries’ internal affairs.

d.The Internet advocates western life-styles.

e.The Internet helps dominant cultures impact and homogenize cultures in an inferior position.

f.The Internet corrupts people’s minds, influences and changes people’s moral perspectives and ethical values.

g.Internal networks become susceptible to invasion.

h.The Internet makes it easy to lose and leak secrets.

i.The Internet poses the potential threat of information warfare.

j.The Internet can be used to commit crimes.

Some of them pay insufficient attention to the importance of political studies and thought reforms. Furthermore, because they tend to be lone operators on single machines, if they cannot be vigilant against being alone, they are more likely to be impacted by the negative sides of the Internet and are more likely to develop a “no one really knows what’s going on anyway” psychology.

In conclusion, it’s impossible not to open up the computer networks and there is only one way to be totally risk free—closing the networks. Once the Internet is open, the benefit of people using it to the Internet resources will be accompanied by its negative impact.

Therefore, at a time when the Internet applications have penetrated to all the aspects of our nation, to our military forces, we must control and to our best ability destroy its negative impact, making sure that while we can fully enjoy the power of the Internet in our nation and our military, we can also destroy the problem at its root, before it even begins to germinate.

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