<p> Moresi 1</p><p>Samuel Moresi</p><p>English 1001, Sec.10</p><p>Annotated Bibliography </p><p>June 27, y</p><p>The Effects Censorship Has On The Internet. </p><p>Principio, John. “Internet Censorship”. The Impact news.com. Mercy College, December </p><p>13, 2012. November 24, 2014.</p><p>In this article Principio states that many Americans take our free use of the internet for </p><p> granted. He mentions that the United States is not totally free from censorship, but</p><p> the government does try to keep it to a minimum mostly censoring websites </p><p> considered illegal by legislation such as child pornography and sites thought to be</p><p> threats to our national security. </p><p>Principio also mentation an Organization based out of Paris called “Reporters without </p><p>Borders” whose mission is to protect and advocate for the freedom of the press </p><p> and the spread of information worldwide. They see Censorship as a threat to </p><p> liberty and basic human rights The organization sight’s countries such as “Iran, </p><p>Belarus, Saudi Arabia, China and North Korea” for using censorship to wash non-</p><p> government approved opinions on things like governmental policies all the way to</p><p>LGBT Rights even “political satire websites” are not safe. Moresi 2</p><p>“What are the reasons for internet censorship?”Arabipcentre.com n.p. n.d November 25, </p><p>2014 </p><p>Arab IP Centre Gives a very informative look at the underlying reasons why </p><p> governmental entities depend so heavily on internet censorship IP clams there are </p><p> three different reasons for governmental entities use to use censorship. The first </p><p> and most “controversial” of these being political not all governments have free </p><p> and fair elections like ours here in America and order to keep their power they </p><p> must suppress the views of any minority group that “contradict what the </p><p> government has told people”.</p><p>The next reason is the protection of “social norms” examples include “laws against child </p><p> pornography or hate speech” these social norms vary from location so sometimes </p><p> traditional social norms may be hindering free speech homosexuality was the </p><p> example used because in some areas of the world its widely accepted but in others</p><p> it’s still a huge taboo the same can be said about different religious groups. The </p><p> third reason is national security some information can harmful reach in the wrong </p><p> hands as a society we need to define a fine line between necessary censorship for </p><p> our protection and censorship that can lead to oppression. </p>