CENSORSHIP ON THE INTERNET

CENSORSHIP ON THE INTERNET

A 43-year-old man from Boston was having a steamy cyber affair with who he thought to be a
23-year-old woman. He later found out the "she," to his dismay, was an 80-year-old man living in a
Miami nursing home. Things like this happen everyday, people mask their sex and age to avoid or
attract attention on the Internet. This is only one of the reasons why the government wants to
censor the Internet. They claim they want to ‘protect’ the children by limiting the amount of
‘reality’ they are allowed to view. But in order to do this they would need to censor the entire
Internet, from everyone. This is why censorship on the Internet would be a violation of the first
amendment.

Censorship itself is not what most people are concerned about. Instead, how far will it go? How far
is too far? When will it stop? Can the Internet ever be censored? These questions need to be
answered before we can even think about censoring.

In order to fully understand censorship you have to know what the Internet is. The Internet is an
open interconnection of networks that enables computers to connect directly through phone lines.
It allows people from around the world to communicate with the touch of a button.

Its size is unimaginable, its content is uncountable. "In early 1995 more than 50,000 networks and 5
million computers were connected via the Internet, with a computer growth rate of about 9
percent per month" (Rutkowski, Encarta). Is the Internet to large to be ce...

CENSORSHIP ON THE INTERNET

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