"Web Hoaxes, Counterfeit Sites, and Other Spurious Information on the Internet"

The "Web Hoaxes, Counterfeit Sites, and Other Spurious Information on the Internet" article goes into detail about the wide arrange of ways people can be misled on the web. This article touch bases on: counterfeit website, suspicious websites, news, disinformation, subject specific misinformation, fictitious sites, parodies and spoofs, entertainment, news groups, hacks, and picking up where another person left off. This articles talks about how counterfeit websites pass themselves off as the real legit site, while having subliminal links and messages to content that would be unrelated to the actual content of the real site. In a sense counterfeit sites give the real sites a bad reputation. Suspicious websites are those sites that are put out there that we don’t want to really believe in because of their content and set up. There are simply there to mislead us with false information. When dealing with the news even they are guilty and susceptible to false information. People are grabbing whatever information that isn’t credible and publishing it as news without actually checking deeper into the facts. This article continues on about how there are several ways of publishing misinformation in a variety ways. Whether it is humorous or malicious misleading is the ultimate aim.
I honestly feel after reading this article that everything I consume on the internet should be more thoroughly looked into. There is a lot of content that can easily be passed as the real or altered to mislead someone into thinking or believing something that is misrepresented in some way. I think this type of information should be required for everyone to know because there can be a great deal of damage done if someone is not carefully about the content that is consumed on the internet. I also feel there should be some type of sanctions against these individuals that are publishing this false content. I understand people have a freedom of speech, but when that freedom damages of endangers the freedoms of others there needs to be some type of punishment.