Why The Internet Should Be Censored

Why is the censorship required? Well, this topic is actually debatable. “CENSOR” is a word that makes a lot of people uncomfortable, it seems as our right to freedom of speech and expression is being denied. William Westmoreland said “Without censorship things can get terribly confused in public mind”. Some important reasons why the internet should be censored are cyberbullying, exposure to adult sites and piracy.

Un-censorship could provoke cyberbullying. Cyberbullying is an act to harass or threaten another individual. To me more precise, this act is meant to hurt an individual physically, verbally and psychologically. People use blogs, emails and social networking sites such as Facebook, twitter and Instagram etc. It could destroy social and private lives of many people. It could also lead people with health problems like anxiety, depression and suicidal thoughts.

Modern day generation is exposed to hate content, adult sites and misleading content. Dangerous clips on sexual abuse are uploaded on internet which affects innocent minds. The fact is that children are too young and innocent to distinguish between good and bad. they have poor self-control on themselves which makes it easier for them to misled in the wrong direction. According to a research, it states that 36% children who accidentally access to the negative content will go on finding similar content due to curiosity.

Piracy is the practice of illegally reproducing and sharing forward. Piracy is a threat to national security as well as to an individual. A threat to national security because other country’s spies could illegally obtain country’s secret like army’s secret and government confidential information etc. by taking advantage of internet. A threat to and individual because people could take advantage of others hard work. Furthermore, the work that people do belongs to them in the same way as their personal belongings.

I read somewhere that if we let children read whatever they want and let them talk about it. Instead the parents and children should converse together, we would not be needing much censorship because we would not have much fear.

In conclusion, my opinion is that censorship would be able to make both the internet and the world a better place. Un-censorship could lead to cyberbullying, exposure to adult sites and piracy as discussed above. However, we could censor the internet in such a way that it still remains a good source of information and a lively social space for people. 

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