People use Internet every day. The contents of this magnificent technology could be accessed by all level of people, from the elderly to the young children. Eventually, without a proper measure taken to control the access of Internet, those young minds will become vulnerable to many types of threat from the internet itself. Obviously, the internet should be censored and monitored extremely closely by the authorities.
The issue of internet censorship has been debated in the highest legal constitution level since the last decade. The term "censorship" and "monitor" had their own difference. The term "censorship" refers to the banning or blocking of some explicit website that might oppose threat to the viewers. The term "monitor" carries the meaning of an action to observe, to check, to track or to keep under surveillance. From the definition, we know that to censor is stricter than to monitor.
So as to make my stance clearer, I like to mention that internet censorship is a necessary evil for everyone. The first thing that had become the most threat to the society is pornography. Everybody knows about this issue, which have already become one of the most important issues in the whole world. Pornography was a bad influence on the young minds if no proper and immediate action was taken to cope with this problem. New technology always raises new ethical concerns. From the Encyclopedia of Ethics in Science and Technology (Nigel Barber), the internet was referred as bringing the standard of sexual morality of one society into collision with another. It was also mentioned that the purpose of internet censorship is to protect the children from exposure to pornography and from becoming the subject of pornography.
As stated before, the legal action for internet censorship was not yet been taken. As we know, internet censorship is very crucial to limit the young minds from bad influence. However, do we know what the effects of uncensored internet contents on the adults? What is the problem posed by internet if there is no censorship? As stated in the book Computer Confluence (George Beekman, 2002), without proper censorship, the internet will become overtaken by scams, hoaxes, credit card thefts, forgery, pornography hustling, sabotages and many others. He had also written that the internet had clearly lost its innocence. The rapid growth and the commercialization of the internet lead to many social problem that raised important political question. By leaving the internet without doing anything, it will be harder for us to handle these problems in the future.
Entertainment companies and related industries had always opposed the measures taken to monitor or to censor the internet because of protecting their profits made from the porn industries. In the article Internet Censorship Arguments' from M/Cyclopedia of New Media (Chris McCosker 2004), implied that the uncensored exposure from the internet has many unpleasant effects on later life such as the abjection of partners and the dissociation of sex with intimacy. This shows that the exposure (in the form of uncensored internet contents), will pose more problems to the society in the future. Chris had also written that regulation, which refers to internet censorship, is the key of protecting our future generation.
Most of the parties who opposed the internet censorship remained on their stance with the reason that the internet censorship will infringe on the rights of adults to view pornographic content legitimately. For that, the responsible authority takes action on this particular polemic issue with referring to the technology experts. In history, there had been countless acts used by the government to censor the inappropriate content of the internet without refuting the rights of adults to access the explicit content. For example, the United States had introduced the Child Online Protection Act (COPA) in 1998, prosecuting the ISP's, Communication Decency Act in 1996 and the Children's Internet Protection Act in December of 2000. All these acts promote the censorship of explicit internet contents without ignoring the rights of adults for these contents.
Without a proper action taken on these harmful exposures, it will be hard for us to mould a generation of integrity with proper ethics and mannerism. To summarize and at once, emphasize my points of stance, it was very clear to us that the internet should be monitored or censored by the government in order to keep our children safe from the harmful threat of internet. Besides that, a solution could be taken by the government by forming a special committee or council to monitor the progress of internet and its harmful effects on the society. If the internet was left to be free from any censorship, the deleterious effects will continue until the end of time, when it was too late and we will not be able to do anything for it. Only one way left to save our future; say yes to internet censorship!