Who is supposed to be the watchdog on the net? This question will raise the temperature in almost any room. The government already has to many regulations on lots of things, which wants Uncle Sam’s hand in the web. Some of the regulations that are applied are there for specific reasons. Those protect the people before the damage to say a young child posing for porn can be done. Those people that would be trying to regulate the Internet could be going after those sick, pathetic pedophiles that float around in the child chat rooms.
Who does the responsibility belong to?
The parents should be the ones that are responsible for what their children view on the Internet. The net itself can be very valuable if used as a tool for learning. In the group Families Against Internet Censorship, they understand the concept of parental filtering. One of the families uses primarily the Internet to home-school their children. When a child signs on to the web, he or she has almost infinite resources right at the ends of their fingertips. Where else can you maximize the world’s resources from inside the comforts of home? I know that a young teenager can productively use this information. I have been using the net for abo
ut eight years for my reports and personal knowledge quests. My father would check on me every now and again to make sure I was on task. Not only was he keeping what I viewed pg13, he was helping me use different search engines and being my troubleshooter until I could surf the web by myself. Lots of the children nowadays are just tuned loose with a computer and not checked on until suppertime or bedtime. With that much freedom come temptation, this leads to the children looking up porn, explosives, or something else that their parents would not want them to look at.
Uncle Sam has no business in adding more regulations to the net. That bear has his hand too far in the honey jar already. The Internet can be one of the most valuable information tools there is in the world today. This valuable tool can also carry very explicit material. If parents do not pay attention to what their children are downloading, this explicit content may weave its way across the web and into your house. How many parents would pay a monthly fee to just hand their child a chainsaw and turn them loose on an unsuspecting world? I do not know a single parent who would even think of letting this hypothetical situation proceed. A chainsaw can also be viewed as a valuable tool if used to clear land or clear a road of fallen trees. If misused this can be a very dangerous piece of equipment. Keeping this in mind, picture the web as a very important tool. The Internet also has infinite knowledge paths waiting to be bla
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