censorship of the internet

Censorship of the Internet The Internet’s free speech rights are currently a hot topic in the news for a wide variety of reasons. People are abusing the Internet and putting things that have no business being on there, for example such things as child pornography, bestiality, and S & M photos and videos. Complete CD and software packages ranging from $60-$1000 can be found for free on any random page if you look hard enough. …

…tool will become nearly useless, and the Internet as a mass communication device and a place for freedom of mind and thoughts, will become non-existent. The users, servers, and parents of the world must regulate themselves, so as not to force government regulations that may stifle the best communication instrument in history, “because the power to control the dissemination of information is the power to influence the beliefs and actions of human beings” (Lipard, Jacobson 35).