Censorship online can more often than not go over looked. Usually people can get online and say things that would be considered totally inappropriate, if not worse, in public but because it's online nobody cares. It shouldn't be this way should it? I mean, why should saying something online be any different than saying it out loud? Is it because people don't know who is actually saying it? Yeah it's just b0b123...it's not an actual person so it's ok. Well bob123 is a real person, that's ust a user name. And you have to wonder if bob123 would actually say the things he says online out loud to somebody in person. Just like there are limits to what you can and cant say in public, there should be limits to what you can and cant say online.
However, there is another kind of censorship that goes on with the internet. Things that people can and cant see are censored. Governments all over the world are screening things on the internet that should be available for all to see.
Here's the URL for a video on Internet Censorship: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPAvg6CU6sI
This is a great topic, but I would like to see you engage it more. This reads as a bit too casual and stream of conscious -- try to talk about censorship and the Internet and really discuss its implications.
ReplyDeleteI find this topic very interesting. I understand what you are saying about bob123 is just a screen name and there is a person saying these things, but I do like the beauty of being able to speak freely on the internet and being able to kinda hide who you are, some people need that freedom to get things out. Yes, some people cross the line and are very inappropriate, but being able to say what you want and having no consequences can be liberating.
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