To encourage the exploitation of the opportunities offered by the Internet and new online technologies, measures are needed to promote their use in greater safety and to protect the last user against unsolicited content.
Awareness-raising actions should cover a wide range of categories of illegal, unsolicited and harmful content (including, for example, content considered inappropriate for children) and, where appropriate, take into account related aspects of consumer protection, data and information and network security protection (viruses / unsolicited messages). These actions need to address content distributed on the World Wide Web, as well as new forms of interactive information and communication created by the fast spread of the Internet and mobile telephony.
Internet – the Ethics of Virtual Communities
