To censor is defined in the dictionary as, “to examine in order to suppress or delete anything considered objectionable.” Censoring the internet would be to remove content which could be considered objectionable. Who would be the judge of this content? The government? The public? With the large amount of material on the internet how woul

Fourteen year-old Johnny is spending the night at his friend’s house and they have ran out of things to do. Johnny decides to get on the internet and look for something to occupy their time. He goes to the ever popular search site, Yahoo, and searches for “young teen fun.” The results take a second to appear and then they pop on to the screen. 19 of the first 20 results are pornographic. Some titles of these results are: Young teen sex fun, pussy castle young teens having fun by the pool and, teenmovievault.com high quality 18+. Suppose Johnny or his friend was to click on one of those results by accident, the young boy would be exposed to pictures of a nude women or man posing in an explicit fashion. This is one of the problems that could be fixed by censoring the internet. Get on the internet and go to www.NAMBLA.org. This site is for the North American Man/Boy Love Association. The following information was obtained from their website:

• cooperating with lesbian, gay, feminist, and other liberation movements;

d the government maintain rule over the content? The first Amendment of the Constitution is written:

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