Internet Censorship

[PenguinElitist]

Believe it or not, there are people out there in the United States hell-bent on having the US government censorsing the internet. Some of you may agree with them, though as this is a fairly technology-inclined population I doubt there will be many.

First of all, censorship at all is a breach of human rights. Remember this?

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Censoring the internet would be in violation of freedom os speech, our freedom of press, and our right to peacefully assemble.



Secondly, there's morale issues:

My husband and I chose to have children and we are also choosing to raise them ourselves. We will not abrogate our responsibility as parents and blame some faceless entity because we did not do the very best we could to raise intelligent, moral, responsible children. Censorship is a double-edged sword we are not willing to risk our children’s futures on. -Debbie and Michael Lander (http://www.netfamilies.org)

A government that claims itself to be a Democratic Republic should not even think of telling people how to think or what is right and wrong. It is true that they do this to a great extent anyways, but going so far as to block 'offensive' internet websites would be beyond anything.



Thirdly, how in the hell would the government do it? It's impossible in all practicle senses. There are hundreds of ISPs, or Internet Service Providers, many who's value reaches in the millions of dollars, who would have to be either taken over or disbanded by the government. That would unemploy millions of US citizens and horribly upset the US economy. On top of this, there are countless ways for technology-savy induviduals to access blocked information, through Proxy Servers, Dynamic IP Addresses, or even the good old direct-connection. I simply can see no way for the government to successfully censor the internet as a whole without destroying millions of jobs, disbanding hundreds of companies, and wasting billions and billions of US dollars.

[MinorThreat]

Don't even get me started on that shit. It's bullshit in a chef's salad. If the stupid government censored the internet, I'd probably kill myself.

[MinorThreat]

Actually, now that I think about it, it's impossible. The internet is not a US-only thing. The only way they could do it would be to have an international conference.

[streetsoulja]

NAh, internet is never gonna get banned.......hopefully.......lol

[Soulbound]

who said anything about it being banned? lol.... But it will never be censored. End of story.

[KRAZEE]

I think that if they were to censor it they would of done it along time ago before porn and p2p music was introduced to prevent such things. But now its beyond their control and they cant stop it.

[unit_number_43]

it's impossible anyway. if the US/Europe/Asia/Africa all censored porn (yeah right) then everyone would setup servers on Antarctica for porn. It's impossible to stop now.

[tacoX]

I am totally against internet censorship, and I would do anything in my power. One of the reasons I enjoy the internet is because its so uncensored - I can find anything I want whenever I want. Its almost makes it more for to be able to access things I couldnt normally access in real life.

I think, if anything, its the parents responsilbity to prevent their children from viewing content they wish for them not to view. Now my parents never did censor the internet from me (thank god), and I think I turned out fine (so far).

It really depends on the person, I guess.

[Illegalx17]

I am totally against censorship, but i do have problems with the porn. I dont know, im a christian, so i know im prolly gonna get flamed, but o well. I feel that porn is sinful, and that kids shouldnt be able to do it. I also think its amazingly annoying to have porn popups and stuff, especially when you are at a public place etc. I think they should have a porn only domain, eg .porn or something. That way we would get less crap when we dont want it, and it'd be easier for the porn people to find porn.

[KRAZEE]

Blessed are those who are persecuted for theirs is the kingdom of Heaven - @ Illegalx17

Come to think about it, its impossible, unless someone turns Hitler on internet then there is no physical way of censoring the internet, and if they did then there will be ways to beat it.