Regular Internet users are less likely to respect law: Report
April 29th, 2011 - 4:58 pm ICT by ANIMelbourne, Apr 29(ANI): A new study has found that frequent Internet users are less likely to respect the law, serve on a jury or do volunteer work.
According to an Australian National University poll, while regular web surfers were more politically engaged, they also had less deference for traditional societal values.
Only 38 percent of respondents who logged on at least once a day felt it was important to obey laws and regulations, compared with 51 percent of less regular cyberspace visitors.
Almost nine in 10 respondents had Internet access at home, with 82 percent of people having broadband access.
Some 68 per cent of poll participants used the Internet at least once a day.
“Frequent internet users were less willing than infrequent internet users to accept that traditional norms of citizenship such as obeying laws and regulations, serving on a jury if called and being active in voluntary organizations are very important in order to be a good citizen,” the Courier Mail quoted the report, as saying. (ANI)
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