What is Censorship? Censorship is the ability of someone else to determine what he or she feels is acceptable for an American citizen to view. Except it is more than just that, the American Library Association deter

Working on keeping kids out of pornography on the Internet is a lost cause. All a teenager needs to access porn is a vivid imagination and half a brain. Half a brain to find a site that uses a credit card for age verification and a vivid imagination to come up with a valid card number. Leaving parents with no other choice but to buy software that will filter out the bad parts of the web. However, the web is just too large. Bill Duvall works for a company called SurfWatch, he pays Stanford University Graduate Students to track down porno sites so he can add the URL to the do not allow list. {4} There is a problem with this though, porn sites pop up all over the web everyday, and it is impossible to keep pace with the times. BESS is a form of net censorship that most schools use yet they it has a choice on what kind of censorship you can be provided with. Whether or not you would like it to search the page for content that maybe offensive or to build off from a list. If it searches the page it limits too much if it builds off from a list it does not allow enough. There is no halfway point unless the parent trusts the child. "The Internet is an incredibly powerful medium for freedom of speech and freedom of expression that should be protected. It is the biggest change in human communications since the printing press, and is being used to educate our children, promote electronic commerce, provide valuable health care information, and allow citizens to keep in touch with their government. But there is material on the Internet that is clearly inappropriate for children. As a parent, I understand the concerns that parents have about their children accessing inappropriate material." {5} So again, I believe what this comes down to is whether the human mind can handle the image of a nude person, maybe some people can not but whose fault is that.

Privacy and Censorship go hand in hand. If a person does not have privacy and then the government is regulating what a person can say then they are also censoring what they can hear. I find this very amusing, I was watching Television a while ago and I saw this interesting movie called "Enemy of the State." Having already missed half the movie I debated even watching the rest, I ended up watching it and Gene Hackman's character formerly worked for the NSA. He started talking about underground computers that cycled through phone conversations that people had listening for keywords, if a keyword hit the call would be recorded and reviewed for terrorist meaning. The amusing part is that I was shocked thinking oh my God what would happen if this were a true story. Well guess what, it is true, while reading through some information of this paper I found a web-site called top 25 censored news story's in 1997 it hit as number 4. It is still up and running under code name ECHELON. There are networks of computers all over the world and every telephone call placed on the globe is monitored, the sheer computers needed for a project like that are inconceivable. Computers that could perform tasks like this have existed since the 1970's, but it was not until the 80's that ECHELON was instituted. Privacy is gone and the whole thing is covered up and censored. The story came public when Nick Hager published a book called Secret Power outlining the whole project. The day it was released there was an all day meeting in the prime ministers office trying to find a way to keep the book from being distributed, they concluded the political costs would be to high and gave up. {3}

Father: "Well, yes, but they are for adults only. Look at the label."

"In our day, when the law is forbidden to make moral judgments this because t

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