Internet Censorship and How It Affects You

Internet Censorship and How It Can Affect You

Ramon Urbaez

English 201-108

Nadezhda Esque

November 16, 2012

Draft 2

Internet Censorship and How It Can Affect You

One thing that every American in the year 2012 can relate with is that we are all affected in some way by the internet day by day. Whether you are checking the weather on your smart phone, socializing on Facebook or Twitter using your tablet, or playing an online game on your laptop, each of us have experienced the internet in different ways and continue to invest more and more time in it by the day. It would not sound foreign if one were to make the assumption that the internet in many ways help us get through the day, and even more strikingly decide how some of us live.

Though we use the internet for many positive things, there will always be the select few that abuse the system which has done almost nothing but give. The few who illegally download music and share it through the internet to millions more, those who break internet policies and federal law, with things like child pornography. Proponents on this issue suggest censoring the internet, or in other words granting more government interference or regulation over what websites can exist on the internet. The problem is, by letting the government interfere in the public space which is the internet, you are also allowing them to have an eye over everything you do on the internet, and could even provide strict regulations as to what you post on your facebook, twitter, or any social networking site.

The act immediately may seem like a great thing to some and already some could be strongly against this, from only hearing what you have, early opinions can be formed. The internet censorship act is as an important issue facing our country just as abortion or gay rights, it is the essential right to free speech. The internet has helped us progress in the last twenty years much more than any other scientific advancement, and with so much to...