Should the Internet Be Censored?

Should The Internet be Censored?

Internet Censorship is controlling the amount of information that people can view while on the Internet.

A majority of the western world see Internet censorship as an infringement of their basic rights to freedom of information. Many people especially in the United States call Internet Censorship unconstitutional and a breech of the Constitution. As freedom of speech is the first amendment of the US constitution. "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." (Web: Cornell University pag. 1)

Even though many people believe that censorship of Internet is unconstitutional, a lot of people also agree that there is too many harmful materials that can be viewed to easily on the Internet. Not only is pornography a problem for many people but the Internet also gives information on ways to make bombs, how to commit suicide, how to make drugs and many other illegal things. For these reasons some non western governments use Internet censorship to block the content that people are allowed to see. Many people in the western world see Internet censorship the first step to Communism. China is a good example of the government using censorship to restrict what people see "China's filtering and censorship program is regarded as the most sophisticated and effective in the world. It includes some 30,000 censors as well as technology, often provided by foreign companies like google and yahoo who are required to censor their results or be censored themselves. The filtering effort is in conjunction with a strict criminal prosecution system working with laws that forbid the publication of anything "(i) Denying the guiding status of Marxism, Mao Zedong Thought, or Deng Xiaoping Theory; (ii) Violating the Party line, guiding principles, or policies; (vii) Anything else that violates Party propaganda discipline or violates national publishing administration regulations."