Safer Internet Day Theme : Current Affairs

The invention of the Internet can be called the most revolutionary event in the 21st century.

After the invention of engine atom and the electricity, the computer and internet have had the biggest impact on human life.

Safer Internet Day 2018

The Internet is the ocean of unlimited information and possibilities, But with all the inventions of science, there are also side effects of the Internet.

Internet Day was celebrated around the world for how to avoid the evils of the Internet. Its purpose is to motivate people, especially children and youth, to clean and constructive and positive use of the Internet.

Safer Internet Day was celebrated on 6th February worldwide rising internet usage and the dangers associated with it; it is a very important day for the world.

There are also dangers associated with the use of the internet. Apart from hacker, viruses, mornings, pornography, paedophiles, child sexual abuse, there are many illegal activities such as cyber terrorism, cyber trafficking, online gmailing, cyber economic offences.

In 2004, the European Union Board introduced the Saver Internet Committee, to prevent the illegal activities of the internet and related illegal activities and promote clean content on the Internet.

According to Facebook reports, nearly 20 million Facebook users are bogus.

The pornography website runs five times faster than any other sites on the internet.

The Safe Internet Committee began to work fully in 2005 and gradually got out of Europe and spread to the whole world.

Today, more than 130 countries of the world have joined the European Safeguard Internet Committee Safer Internet Day Committee was created in 2009.

The purpose of creating The safe internet committee was to apply the same thinking and policy to the Internet in other countries of the world using the Internet and to make mutual understanding between these countries.

Organization and companies like Council of United Nations Organization UNICEF, International Police Organization Interpol, and Microsoft, Google Facebook, Twitter are also working it.

It was the day 29th October 1969 that the world had changed.

This was the day when scientists came to know what the internet is, but at that time it was called Alphanet.

The first email was created in 1972, and Alphanet was commercialised in 1974. Alphanet, Telnet became the first company to start its business and later its called The Internet.

1983 was the time when the website came to be known on the Internet, and the use of domain name system, i.e. DNS was started.

More than 1000 private computers were added to the Internet in 1984. In 1986, the National Science Foundation added a huge network to its five supercomputer centres, and the combination of the networks called at the time NSS Net.

In 1989, Tim Berners Lee created the World Wide Web using browser and link to simplify communication on the Internet and after 1998 Google changed the face of the Internet.

The Internet In India For the ordinary people (BSNL) started after 1980, 45 years of the Internet has changed the world, and today it is hard to imagine life without internet.

IT Act was created in India in 2000 to deal with cybercrime; Through this, necessary changes were also made in the Indian Penal Code 1860, Indian Evidence Act 1872, Banking Evidence Act 1891, and Reserve Bank Act 1934.

In 2008 the IT Act was amended, but since then techniques and methods of crime have changed almost entirely.

Currently sending threatening messages through email under Section 503 of IPC is a crime.

According to Section 499 of the IPC, the email sent by the spirit of any defamation is in the category of crime.

The case of tracking the hidden email of someone is under section 463 of the IPC.

Apart from this, the crime related to selling online medicine will be heard under the NDPS Act.

While cases involving the purchase or selling of weapons online are is under the Arms Act.

Under Section 65 of the Information Technology Act, attempt to tamper with computer resources is a crime.

Section 66F Penalties for cyber-terrorism have been made.

About 40 million people of the total population of India is using The internet About 200 million people use social media, most of them are young. In a recent report, it was claimed that by 2020, more than half the internet subscribers would be from rural areas and about 40 percent of them would be women.

Law said that Children under the age of 13 could not use social media platform.