Nobody knew the internet could be developed this much 50 years ago when the computer was first appeared. Nowadays, we can’t do anything in society without using the internet since whole systems are connected and communicated via the internet. It is true that the development of the internet brought lots of convenience to human’s lives. However, it is also true that the internet brought many negative effects to us. Since these negative effects will continue without proper censorship, I strongly insist that the internet should be censored for the following reasons.
The primary reason why we should censor the internet is there is good possibility that crime might happen due to the internet. One of the advantages using the internet is anybody can easily access information from many websites even though these contain cruel crime scenes. We can commonly watch the news on the TV, which says terrorists made a bomb after learning how to manufacture bombs through the internet. We can even buy weapons from commercial websites such as E-Bay that sells many things. For instance, the criminal, Cho who fired the gun and killed 32people at Virginia Tech bought many guns and bullets from E-bay. Further, these crime scenes on the websites make people fall into disorder and confused between virtual and present.
What is more, the internet contains a lot of pornography, which can affect people including teenagers. In the past, we couldn’t dream this world that everything was controlled by touching a keyboard. However, a variety of crimes also appeared simultaneously. For example, on the cyber-chatting many men and women seek the partner for prostitution. In spite of this fact, it is really difficult to regulate this illegal behavior. The most important thing we have to know is those people, who want to do blind meeting for prostitution, have no conscience, because they have grown up with too much exposure to pornography.
Moreover, we can say that censoring on the websites is important for personal privacy and security. We can find and download celebrities’ sex videos from P2P or web search engines such as Google and Yahoo. Everyone has a right for their privacy to be protected under law. One of the other problems is hacking. Without enough censorship, we must know we could be target to hacker. As this much, the personal privacy and security are issued while we are using the internet since there are many crimes. We do remember the internet exists not for a crime that invades a personal privacy but for human’s convenience.
In conclusion, the internet must be a strong tool that can make people live convenient than ever before. Though the internet is beneficial, it should be censored to prevent bad effects that are caused by abusing the internet such as crime, pornography and invasion of privacy. Our world will be more convenient and safe if there is proper censorship on the internet. |