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Term Paper Title	Brent Fischer
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Brent Fischer
English III
Argument Paper
Mrs. Regynski
Internet Censorship
The Internet is a wonderful place of entertainment and education but like all places used by millions of people, it has some areas people would prefer children not to explore. In the physical world, society as a whole conspires to protect children, but there are no social or physical constraints to Internet surfing. In this paper I will argue that I believe that there should be some censoring but the government should not and cannot do it.
The Internet Censorship Bill of 1995, also known as the Exon/Coats Communications Decency Act, has been introduced in the U.S. Congress. It would make it a criminal offense to make available to children anything that is indecent, or to send anything indecent with "intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass". The goal of this bill is to try to make all public discourse on the Internet suitable for young children. The issue of whether is it necessary to have censorship on the Internet is being argued all over the world. There are numerous homepages on the web discussing this issue, or asking people to sign the petition to stop government censorship.
The Internet was originally a place for people to freely express their ideas worldwide. It is also one of America's most valuable types of technology, people use the net for communication, expressing their opinions in the newsgroups, obtaining up-to-date information from the web, etc. Censorship would damage the atmosphere of the freedom to express ideas on the Internet; therefore, government should not encourage censorship.
The worldwide web (WWW), which is another component of the Net, can be used to "publish" material that would traditionally appear in journals, magazines, posters, books, and television and even on film.
The Internet can also be compared to a church; it has its council of elders, every member has an opinion about how things should work, and they can either take part or not. It's the choice of the user. The Internet has no president, chief operating officer, or Pope. The constituent networks may have presidents and CEO's, but that's a different issue; there is no single authority figure for the Internet as a whole. Internet users can broadcast or express anything they want. The fact that the Net has no single authority figure sets forth a problem about what kind of materials could be available on the Net.
The U.S. government is now trying to pass bills to prevent misuse of the Net...

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