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.