The Importance Of Internet Censorship

When the internet started in 1989 it was a place for the educated and the responsible. People used mainly for educational purposes and as a place to seek for like minded individual who had common viewpoints. Fast forward a decade or so and the internet had become mainstream. It now a place most people would consider the absolute definition of freedom. A place anything and everything go. Of course with that kind of freedom comes great danger. Cyber bully, unrestricted pornographic, many inappropriate content, and what the government feared most, gathering of anti-government rebels who spew government secrets and attract others to their cause. With these things on the internet many people believe that there should be some form of restriction on the internet, some form of censorship. I believe that they are wrong due to many reasons. The internet shouldn’t be censored due its very nature being a place where information is accessible to even the average man. Censoring the internet is equivalent to censoring the news which against the First Amendment, freedom of speech, freedom of press, and freedom of petition/assembly, freedom of religion, and freedom of association. The First states “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. The Internet should not be censored, because the information on it is important to someone, in all cases. Anyone should be allowed to post whatever they want, as part of their rights for freedom of speech and freedom of the press. If you do not like something on the Interne...

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...took only a few days to prepare a response. It came in the form of a little online video of a fluffy alpaca, with an exuberant children’s chorus singing about the wonders of a mythical Chinese animal, the “Grass Mud Horse”. In Chinese, “alpaca” also means, almost to the tone, “screw your mother.” So does “grass mud horse.” “He Xie” (harmony, and therefore censorship) is phonetically very close to “river crab.” Here is the alpaca song: The “grass mud horse” (screw your mother) lives in the Ma Le desert (your mother’s twat). This creature fights the “river crabs” (harmony/censorship) in order to save the “prairies” (homonym of “freedom of expression”). It was a very crude and joyful protest. But since then, harmony reigns once more, over the living as well as the dead. Any reference to the children who died in the Sichuan earthquake last year is immediately harmonized.