How would you control censorship on the internet? Is it a good or bad thing?

Question

This is research for my dissertation about censorship online, specifically todo with sex and violence.

Answer 1

try google search - good luck

Answer 2

The porn industry offered up a solution with the .xxx but it got shot down. I hope they try again because it really is a brilliant plan.
I think a parent who lets a child under the age of 18 use the Internet without using child safety software or supervision, should be charged with child endangerment.
The Internet is not a toy or a babysitter.
Censorship of the Internet is a tricky deal. If I can directly link to a server in Germany, who's law of "censorship" applies? US laws or Germany's laws or the law of the "space" in between the two cities? Yuck.
Internet censorship is really up to the individual subscriber. The freedom of the Internet needs to be protected, not censored. There are equal opportunities to watch sex and violence on TV. If the Internet reflects our society, why is it a bad thing when sex and violence are accessed through a modem versus a remote control?

Answer 3

The internet is already controlled by corporations (ISPs) and they have the means to censor content... but that would be a mammoth task. Governments put pressure on them, at times, to clamp down on certain things and law enforcement takes a hand in this too.

The internet is huge; as is the human appetite for sex, violence and just about everything else!! Censorship tends to employ a blanket approach to these things which is never good and, as with the fight against viruses, it is always a few steps behind.

Until a single global agency has control over the internet and full support of all governments, there will never be an effective way to censor it. I hope the day never comes when that becomes a reality!

Answer 4

I don't think it is possible to incorporate censorship on the internet. Sex, profanity, and violence are all on the TV and are socially widespread. Too many people are into that stuff and because of that, it will be difficult to control those things. Generally if it is implemented, censorship will be a good thing turned bad. Once something is forbidden, there will always be the few that will go behind the legalities to sate thier need for uncensored entertainment.

Answer 5

well there is far enough sex and violence on tv, magazines, the streets, we really don't need it on the internet as well. I mean come on, everywhere you turn there's sex and violence no matter which direction you are looking at. I would like to see the internet controlled a little better , I mean look at how may kids get online and all they have to type up is something about sex and they get a million web sites to check out, and please don't mention the blockers for those web sites, the kids can easily get around that. Some things should be censored and I think the internet is a good place to start.

Answer 6

For the United States, censorship should be a personal choice. The on/off button on the radio, television, or computer is the only censorship that should exist. When the State begins censoring what the public knows, totalitarianism is right around the corner.

Answer 7

YES! YES! YES! - I believe in censorship. All the politicians should be censored from telling us lies. All the Lawyers and attorneys should be censored from all their lies. All the judges should be censored for telling us lies and finding us guilty of breaking laws that don't exist. They should be censored from lying to the juries. If they censor the internet then we are next. DENUTTED Gingirch is trying to pass the hate speech law to censor what we say. We are all guilty of saying what we think. Next they will have the thought police and our thoughts will have to pass censorship. Maybe an xray machine to pass through everywhere we go so they can choose what we should br thinking. Wake up America!!!!
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Answer 8

"Down with censorship", is the simple answer to your question. Let the people decide, not a government or unelected quango.

People and in particular, parents, can control what they and their children can see over the Internet.

The driving force behind the Internet and the economy which made it grow fast at the beginning is the 'porn' industry.

First came the prostitute then came the lawyer, and so it goes.

Answer 9

There is only one person that should censor what your eyes and ears see and hear: you.

Rather than enforcing some eclectic, all-encompassing laws of censorship, people should learn to discriminate between what is right and wrong for themselves, not be told so by any authority.

If you disagree with sex and violence (which is I do in many of its forms), then reveal it for what it is (senseless and sometimes barbaric stupidity), but don't deign to tell people how to make up their minds. Rather, convince them of what you are convinced.

Answer 10

Where the parties concerned are consenting adults I do not believe in any form of censorship. Access to porn etc should have to be by at least two clicks so that children would not accidently view the material. As an adult I should be free to see anything undertaken by consenting adults.

Answer 11

There should be zero censorship on everything. Give people freedom of speech. Even our little village magazine trys to exercise censorship and it hacks me off