Erick brings up two points:

        In few days we will start a new year, and only in
        somewhere have a legislation in Internet. Is possible?

        I think that the idea of say: "Internet is similar than a
        Traditional Communication Systems (TV, Radio, etc)" is wrong.
        Internet is a new reality, and this is the point.

Starting with the second point.

Marshall Mcluhan pointed out decades ago the "law of new media":
"The first content of new media is old media."  When we begin
with something new, the first thing we do is what we are familiar
with - the old. Right now, the internet is busy incorporating
things we are familar with e-mail, file transfer, magazine and
news, telephones and radio, video phones and television. The
internet is experimenting with all of these.

The interenet IS new, but what NEW applications do we have on
it?  Is altavista one of the new applications ? (I think so,
but it's still an old technology.)  Is hypertext one of the
new applications ? (Again, I think so, but we have very little
experience with hypertext and what it means.)

Over vacation, I saw a program on, I think, Fox Televisiom, called
"Short films by short people" - short films made by school children
about what they were thinking about. One was "Short Films by Short People: The
Adventures of Sam Digital in the 21st Century,"
produced by Sargent York/Cuppa Coffee Animation. It was a
story about hackers, computer viruses, and what life will
be like when everything is virtual. It reminded me that to
young people, EVERYTHING is new - and old - at the same time.
So there is less of a preconception of what the old media
is and what the new media can be.

Perhaps some folks here have some ideas they can contribute
from the kids in their classrooms ?  What do they see happening ?

Steve