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Censorship on the Internet
Censorship is a word of many meanings. ... Censorship may take place at any point in time, whether before an utterance occurs, prior to its widespread circulation, or by punishment of communicators after distribution of their messages, so as to dissuade others from similar expression. ...
The Internet is a powerful and positive forum for free expression. ... For example, some people want to prevent various kinds of information from spreading on the Internet, and in some cases this is quite moral. I suppose it is understandable to try to forbid terrorists from using the Internet as a medium for organizing their unethical actions. In most cases, however, it is an attempt at censorship. ...
The national information infrastructure or the information superhighway or the internet or whatever youre in the mood to call it makes it possible to reach your audience no matter who your audience is and no matter where they are. ...
The governments would like to have the control to view all the information that is circulating on the internet. They would love to read our private e-mails, sit in on chat room conversations and to restrict us on the internet in any way possible. As it is now, the internet is full of people expressing their precious right of free speech. The success of the internet is due to the fact that it does not limit its users. ... Government censorship threatens to destroy the freedoms of the internet that the majority of societies treasure.
The internet is available at a very minimal cost which makes the access to information and freedom of speech available at the same minimal cost. The information that is published over the internet can be accessed globally. The internet is available to anyone with a computer and access to the internet. Anything from fixing a car to building a bomb, from pictures of family to pictures of little children performing unspeakable sexual acts can be posted on the internet. ...
The internet is unlike any other form of publishing. ... The cost involved to publish your thoughts and opinions, or to access other people’s thoughts and opinions is the price of a computer, a modem – which already comes installed in most computers today, and the low monthly cost of internet service through your internet service provider. ... If you can afford as little as one thousand dollars for a personal computer and twenty or thirty dollars a month for internet service, you can publish your thoughts and opinions on the internet and have them reach billions of people for a small fraction of the cost to publish the same information in a daily newspaper. ...
The problem that concerns most people about the internet is the offensive material that is available on the internet, such as pornography. Since the internet is open to everyone, children are very easily exposed to such immoral and offensive material. ... Censorship of books, newspapers, and journals has a long history. ...
Broadcast media has also been subject to censorship in the past. It has not been subject to the same kind of censorship as that of print media. Broadcast media has been subject to self-censorship and has become pervasive among broadcast journalists who have seen the results of defying the government’s restrictions on news. ... Concern about mass access to erotic images and pornography are older than the internet itself. Restrictions on public theatrical performance over the last five hundred years were possibly the greatest manifestation of censorship. ... The censorship of song lyrics has been more widespread and dates back to the beginning of print. Censorship of music expanded from paper to performance with the introduction of mechanical recording. ...
Censoring of the internet is the banning of offensive material. The main advantage of censoring the internet is that children and teenagers could be kept away from inappropriate material.
Approximate Word count = 3175
Approximate Pages = 12.7
(250 words per page double spaced)
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