by Brandon Hall

Created on: August 05, 2009   Last Updated: August 06, 2009

Visit www.pro-ana.com and you will be dazzled by images of emaciated supermodels and movie stars, even tips for hiding dramatic weight loss from parents. All in the hopes that you can be just like those stars or honorably die trying. Anybody would like to say: But it's their right to free speech to post whatever they want. If that is the case, there should be more pro-drug-use websites or pro-homicide websites, even though they're illegal and all that. These sites clearly threaten the well-being of the people of America, or any people for that matter, and should be censored or even banned from the Internet.

The Information Age or the Iron Age?

Censorship. A term that makes even the hardiest of journalists shiver at the thought of having their ideas cut short by an overbearing editor, or possibly a musician whose vulgar lyrics may not have the chance of reaching the ears of an unsuspecting minor. Sure, censorship has been pointed at as a limitation of free speech, but when does free speech in itself become more of a danger than a freedom?

Free speech becomes a danger when it is abused; just as American citizens have the right to bear arms, they can still kill someone in cold blood with that weapon that the right allowed them to obtain. The Internet is a gold mine of free speech information to the public, to political and military officials and even terrorists.

Besides dangerous web sites that are homes to online predators, the Internet caters to rookie terrorists with instructions on how to build bombs or the best way to kill people. These are but a few reasons why censorship should be carried on in the Internet even more so than worrying about it in the music and television industries.

Some people wonder what happens to old technology when something hot and new replaces it. Of course when the new PS3 comes out, the company does not reveal every single detail about its construction and operation, but it will disclose all of the technical information on previous consoles. This is because a rival company would copy its new design and perhaps even improve on it.

So, what is the point here? The point is that all forms of obsolete technology are deemed okay to share with the general public. This rule applies even to military weapons technology which, when considered obsolete, is viewable by the public via online databases. Terrorists intent on inflicting harm on another country or specific people now have unlimited informative resources to build a dangerous

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