Abstract
Nowadays there is surely an increase of new forms of communication among people thanks to technological achievement, communicative power, and social potential of the Internet. While sociologists, political commentators, economists draw attention to the dangers of the Internet because of pornography, intellectual property rights, privacy, security, crime and so on, scholars are worried first of all about issues related to the power its linguistics implication.
The same fears were perceived in the fifteenth century when the arrival of printing was received by the Church as an invention of Satan because there was the fear that uncensored ideas would lead to a breakdown of social order so to the evil. Worries about censorship and control spread all over when society began to cope with the arrival of telegraph, telephone and broadcasting technology.
The Internet is an association of computer networks with common standards which allow messages to be sent from a host to another. It developed in the 1960s in the USA as an experimental network which included military, federal, university, personal users and so on. Now with over 300 million hosts connected by the year 2005, a large number of people are able to keep in touch with each other through electronic mail (e-mail), discussion groups, and the provision of web site on any topic we need information.
