Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Topic Discussion 3: Internet Censorship [by Kuan Swee Li 1112702650]



Who regulates the internet? Personally, do you think there should be internet censorship? Why?

Based on what I've got in Google, there is no one who regulates the Internet, no any governing body or organization that regulates it. It can be considered as a ‘self-regulating’ body, meaning that the Internet Service Providers are given the responsibility of monitoring and regulating content.

I think yes. Internet censorship or web filtering is occurring in many countries around the world. There are differences between the level and type of censorship for different countries. The main reason of Internet censorship is to protect us, the Internet users. There are a lot of users who misused the Internet to post something that are really sensitive nowadays. The sensitive issues included hate speech, sex, violence and others. The society is now greatly affected by what you’ve seen on the Internet. They’ve misused their rights to voice out whatever they wanted to, without thinking properly. Things posted by people can really harm to some others. By the way, there are many Internet users who are still under 18 years old. Not too long ago, many naked pictures are showed and being shared all around the Facebook. And now the violent video of a young husband towards his wife is now everywhere on the Internet. Many people are sharing and talking about it. How would your children feel when they sees these? Will they learn from them? Hopefully not. And this is seriously bad. :/

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