Of course, many people believe that it is a good idea to police the internet to an extent, however, they usually draw a line somewhere, expecting the enforcement of laws to extend only to a certain point, which the enforcers would then stop at, leaving all those who did not violate the certain laws before the line but did violate the laws after it free and without penalty. A notable example of this recently occurred in my personal conversations. While conversing with friends and brainstorming for this very essay I was faced with a person who believed strongly that the government should ban access by children to pornographic sites, or perhaps ban pornographic materials on the internet totally. We can all agree, too, that this is a problem with the freedom offered by the World Wide Web. However, this same friend, when approached moments later concerning the use of copyrighted materials (notably mp3s) the reply "but they don't hurt anyone" was given. This view itself poses a pair of problems, however. The first of these problems is presented in the question of how could we have a governmental bureau enforce these laws and keep them from viewing citizens' private activity online and thus invading their privacy. The second difficulty is that, if we allow this bureau the power necessary to enforce these laws, how can we expect a government to be so hypocritical as to specifically enforce only ce

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