Censorship (Should there be free speech online?)

Censorship is very important on the web as inappropriate materials are found on it on a daily basis. In Ireland it has been argued that the government should set up censorship on websites just like China and America. But in saying all this I strongly believe censorship of the Internet is illegal and unauthorised. The Internet is the best place for people to express their opinions and facts.Through twitter, blogs and many many more, people of all natures leave their opinions on all types of matters. I do believe this is good as they may have something to get off there chest or even have information they wish to share.

Corn-Revere once made-known, "on-line systems give people far more genuinely free speech and free press than ever before in human history." In fact, "Freedom of speech" or "Freedom of press" is guaranteed by the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. For these reasons, censorship of the Internet is illegal.

In saying all of this the information that children are exposed to on the net should be the responsibility of the parents.

I feel censorship of the web would be a daunting task to monitor. Our government would simply not have the funds to manage such a mammoth task. It would be far to costly as the government would have to invest in large amounts of manpower and time.

In my opinion if the web can be harmful and need censorship, then TV and magazines are the same. On TV for example it shows motion pictures that consist of dangerous examples such as drugs abuse and murders. Magazines for example show pictures of beautiful extremely skinny celebrities and if a plump female were to glance at the picture she may become anorexic.