Currently there is a huge controversy over what should and should not be made available to people over the internet. People want to maintain a level of morality without violating the first ammendment's freedoms. For instance, should someone be able to put instructions for making a bomb on the internet? Some people think so, and some don't. As the internet becomes more and more accessible, it continues to amass more and more controversial material. As it is now, almost anyone can put almost anything on the internet without worrying about the reprecussions. This makes it possible for people to publish oppinions that could be harmful to society. For instance if Charles Manson was able to publish blogs from his prison cell it might be detrimental to society, and it is material like that that i think should be censored.
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The concept of censorship really seems to have us against a wall. Just the word alone makes many people shiver. The problem with censorship is that you can either have none or you can have a ton. There is no in-between that can be rightly handled. With the direction that freedom of speech is bringing us, I sometimes begin to wonder if we would be better off mildly suppressed; but then again is there a such thing as mildly suppressed?
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