The Effects Censorship Has on the Internet

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Samuel Moresi

English 1001, Sec.10

Annotated Bibliography

September 17, 18

The Effects Censorship Has On The Internet.

Principio, John. “Internet Censorship”. The Impact news.com. Mercy College, December 13, 2012. November 24, 2014.

In this article Principio states that many Americans take our free use of the internet for granted. He mentions that the United States is not totally free from censorship, but the government does try to keep it to a minimum mostly censoring websites considered illegal by legislation such as child pornography and sites thought to be threats to our national security.

Principio also mentation an Organization based out of Paris called “Reporters without Borders”whose mission is to protect and advocate for the freedom of the press and the spread of information worldwide. They see Censorship as a threat to liberty and basic human rights The organization sight’s countries such as “Iran, Belarus, Saudi Arabia, China and North Korea”for using censorship to wash non-government approved opinions on things like governmental policies all the way to LGBT Rights even “political satire websites”are not safe.

“What are the reasons for internet censorship?”Arabipcentre.com n.p. n.d November 25, 2014

Arab IP Centre Gives a very informative look at the underlying reasons why governmental entities depend so heavily on internet censorship IP clams there are three different reasons for governmental entities use to use censorship. The first and most “controversial”of these being political not all governments have free and fair elections like ours here in America and order to keep their power they must suppress the views of any minority group that “contradict what the government has told people”.

The next reason is the protection of “social norms”examples include “laws against child pornography or hate speech”these social norms vary from location so sometimes traditional social norms may be hindering free speech homosexuality was the example used because in some areas of the world its widely accepted but in others it’s still a huge taboo the same can be said about different religious groups. The third reason is national security some information can harmful reach in the wrong hands as a society we need to define a fine line between necessary censorship for our protection and censorship that can lead to oppression.