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Censorship and The Internet

Although the actual amount of pornography sites on the web is small they are some of the most profitable e-businesses. "Despite the small number of Web sites devoted to sexually explicit material, commercial pornography sites are among the most profitable sites on the Web. In 1999, commercial pornography sites garnered between $750 million and $1 billion" (Miller). So if you tried to censor these sites you would be preventing people from making a living and denying their right to entrepreneurship. Since entrepreneurship helped found this country no one can deny someone that. Also has anyone thought what would happen to all the people who do intentionally visit these sites every day who are adults? "Nine million people visit sexually explicit Web sites each day according to The New York Times" (Miller). With the amount of legit people who look at these sites they would be missed. A lot of the activity on the internet has to do with the use of search engines and arguers for censoring the internet claim that pornographic sites are all over and you can't tell the difference from other sites. What they fail to realize that anytime you use a search engine and bring up your results it has a description for each page. So if it is a pornographic site it will normally let you know that via the description. By banning, or filtering these sites the internet would be much more productive, but at the same time restricting the rights and wants of the people too. Since you can still find resources you need if you are a competent computer user and put your mind to it the people's rights far outweigh the need to ban sexually explicit material. The CDA (Communications Decency Act) and the COPA (Children Online Protection Act) are both bad examples of government regulation. In 1996 the CDA was passed stating that it was prohibited to "knowingly transmit any communication which is obscene or indecent, knowing that the recipient of the communication is under [eighteen] years of age" (Miller).


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1. Internet Censorship

Internet Censorship I believe some things on the internet should have higher security, for example it should be more difficult for children to access pornography or other sexual information. I do not think, however, that anything should be "banned." While ... instances such as children looking for information about the White House and ending up in a pornographic website because they typed in http://www.whitehouse.com. Instead it should be something like http://www.whitehouse.xxx. The internet is a very good thing; it allows us to talk to a friend all the way across the United States for less...

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2. Knowledge, Censorship and International Students

... of online content should or should not be censored. A questionnaire concerned with the scale of knowledge and attitudes toward internet censorship was conducted among 55 international students. The results indicate that almost every country worldwide was perceived to have political censorship on the internet in certain degree and international students have different criterions of evaluation of cyber-censorship. The report also concludes that overseas students tend to be more prudent on ... that as a distasteful material, available pornography may be the most critical threat children fa...

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3. Internet Censorship

... , but the addition of the worldwide network known as the Internet only makes it grow. During the past several years the Internet has expanded the abilities of the common person to gain information on a global scale. As the Internet industry expands almost daily, new issues of censorship and freedom of expression arise. Recently many countries are trying to pass laws on censoring some of the material that is available on the Internet. I believe that Internet censorship is un ... -necessary for the following two reasons. First of all, any type of censorship on the net is inefficient and wou...

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4. Internet Censorship Isn't Necessary

... Decency Act. This act outlaws obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy or indecent communication on the Internet (Bender). This movement has granted censors the right to pick at the Internet as they please. Unfortunately for society, this act was passed by "an admittedly Net-illiterate Congress" (Quittner). The problems with the Internet and censorship are caused mainly by the pornographic sites. Parents do not want their children to see smut. To prevent this ... to avoid this problem. A computer program called CyberPatrol allows the parent to set the time at which a child can access the Inter...

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5. Internet Censorship

... the internet, there is an endless source of illegal material available for anyone's viewing. The issue on whether or not the government has the right to censor the internet has been discussed thoroughly. Many acts and propositions on how to censor the internet have been brought forth and have been voted on. As quoted in the book Civility without Censorship, "As the owner of the internet, the sole ability to resolve on how the information being accessed from the internet ... is controlled resides with the government." Without the government intervening on ... ...

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6. Censorship in China

... no protest to any of its political authority. Media is controlled through monitor systems, publication website cancellations, and even imprisonment for journalists and internet bloggers. Google was a website that battled internet censorship with the Chinese government. The government is forcing the general Chinese public to accept censorship, and it is obvious that the Chinese are eager to find out information. Fortunately, media coverage in China is more diverse than ever before ... Hilary Clinton to try and weaken their censorship. They quickly opposed our view and warned us not to wo...

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7. Internet Censorship

... communications," should also apply to computers (Exon 126). These people suggest the use of blocking software in libraries and support the required use of "a verified credit card, debit account, adult access code or personal identification number," to gain access into questionable Internet cites (Exon 127). Opponents of Internet censorship and the Communications Decency Act, feel that regulation of online activity is an immense threat to our First Amendment ... rights. Those against censorship worry that the use of blocking software at libraries will unnecessarily prevent "both adults a...

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8. Censorship of the Internet

... be quite time consuming. Also, parents can take an active part in the censoring of their own children's online activities. They should manage their child's Internet usage as they would determine the kinds of movies available to be watched. (Censorship and the Internet 1) This can be done with software, not government intervention. As stated in "Censorship and the U.S. Government," "Censorship, like charity, should begin at home, but unlike charity it should ... end there" (Censorship and the U.S. Government 1), technology makes this possible. Internet providers, such as, America Online,...

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9. Should the Internet Be Censored?

... wants to ban something. However, by restricting the flow of information, people cannot make a true decision because they cannot recognize the good ideas from the bad ones. In short, the internet should not be censored because firstly, there is nobody that can determine which sites should be banned or allowed, and secondly, censorship is not the right way to combat this threat to civility. ... Before creation of the World Wide Web, in bulletin board systems, e-mail, and newsgroups, the internet has been a place ... for fanatics such as pornographers, adolescent male, and other people who...

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10. Censorship

... . When an explicit photo gets put onto the Internet the person gets victimized whenever the photo is shared. The United States Congress just recently passed a legistration that requires all pornographic material be blocked in all public schools and libraries. Congress is not all the way for censorship though. In June 1997 they struck down the Communications Decency Act in Reno v. ACLU, and granted the highest level of First Amendment protection to ... the Internet. One reason we need censorship is because there are many people like Robert Thomas who start these ... ...

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