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(D) similarly engaged in the transmission, storage, retrieval,hosting, formatting, or translation (or any combination thereof) ofa communication made by another person, without selection oralteration of the communication.(3) Definitions.--In this subsection:(A) By means of the world wide web.--The term "by means of theWorld Wide Web'' means by placement of material in a computerserver-based file archive so that it is publicly accessible, over theInternet, using hypertext transfer protocol, file transfer protocol, orother similar protocols.(B) Commercial purposes; engaged in the business.--(i) Commercial purposes.--A person shall be considered tomake a communication for commercial purposes only ifsuch person is engaged in the business of making suchcommunications.(ii) Engaged in the business.--The term "engaged in thebusiness'' means that the person who makes acommunication, or offers to make a communication, bymeans of the World Wide Web, that includes any materialthat is harmful to minors, devotes time, attention, or laborto such activities, as a regular course of such person's tradeor business, with the objective of earning a profit as a resultof such activities (although it is not necessary that theperson make a profit or that the making or offering to makesuch communications be the person's sole or principalbusiness or source of income). A person may be consideredto be engaged in the business of making, by means of theWorld Wide Web, communications for commercialpurposes that include material that is harmful to minors,only if the person knowingly causes the material that isharmful to minors to be posted on the World Wide Web orknowingly solicits such material to be posted on the WorldWide Web.(C) Internet.--The term "Internet'' means collectively the myriad ofcomputer and telecommunications facilities, including equipmentand operating software, which comprise the interconnected worldwidenetwork of networks that employ the Transmission ControlProtocol/Internet Protocol, or any predecessor or successorprotocols to such protocol, to communicate information of allkinds by wire or radio.3
(D) Internet access service.--The term "Internet access service''means a service that enables users to access content, information,electronic mail, or other services offered over the Internet and mayalso include access to proprietary content, information, and otherservices as part of a package of services offered to consumers.Such term does not include telecommunications services.(E) Internet information location tool.--The term "Internetinformation location tool'' means a service that refers or links usersto an online location on the World Wide Web. Such term includesdirectories, indices, references, pointers, and hypertext links.(F) Material that is harmful to minors.--The term "material that isharmful to minors'' means any communication, picture, image,graphic image file, article, recording, writing, or other matter ofany kind that is obscene or that--(i) the average person, applying contemporary communitystandards, would find, taking the material as a whole andwith respect to minors, is designed to appeal to, or isdesigned to pander to, the prurient interest;(ii) depicts, describes, or represents, in a manner patentlyoffensive with respect to minors, an actual or simulatedsexual act or sexual contact, an actual or simulated normalor perverted sexual act, or a lewd exhibition of the genitalsor post-pubescent female breast; and(iii) taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic,political, or scientific value for minors.(G) Minor.--The term "minor'' means any person under 17 years ofage.(H) Telecommunications carrier; telecommunications service.--The terms "telecommunications carrier'' and "telecommunicationsservice'' have the meanings given such terms in section 3 of theCommunications Act of 1934 (47 U.S.C. 153).4
Page 2 and 3: Frequently Asked QuestionsHow was t
Page 6 and 7: Commissioner BiographiesDean Andal,
Page 8: Paul Harris, Sr., Delegate, Virgini
Page 11 and 12: Robert Novick, General Counsel,Offi
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Page 31 and 32: THE EMERGING DIGITAL ECONOMYIntrodu
Page 33 and 34: INTRODUCTIONDuring the past few yea
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Page 37 and 38: What makes this rise in IT’s nomi
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Page 41 and 42: Hundreds of new firms are starting
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For the multimedia industry, the qu
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THE FUTUREAnalysts believe that Int
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Often today, consumers are not give
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CONVENIENCEConsumers cite convenien
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This pattern of lower prices is not
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CHAPTER SEVEN:WORKERS IN THE DIGITA
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WORKFORCE FLEXIBILITYWorkforce flex
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CHAPTER EIGHT:CHALLENGES AHEADThis
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ENDNOTES1. “Monetary Policy Testi
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(CERN) in Switzerland. In 1991, the
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55. Number of Online Newspapers on
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