Today we learnt about the idea the government has to filter the Internet to provide us with a “cleaner” space.
This will supposedly protect children’s eyes from sites containing indecent material such as pornography.
In class we discussed that if this was introduced, where would it end? What would the government “decide” was not good enough to be seen? Who is to judge for us and decide what we think is viewable or not?
One dangerous aspect of censoring the internet
The introduction of a filtering program would not only filter the Internet, but our right to freedom of speech.
Filtering would was be of great advantage to them, and I’m sure they will exploit this. They will have the power to chose not to disclose important facts and figures about things found out about the government (EG: wiki leaks, never would have happened.)
I do not agree with the governments plan at all, people rely on the Internet for many reasons; storage, research, information, socializing etc. Filtering this will imply great limitations as to what is accessible.
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