y it produced are what got us to where we are. It seems the government has allowed us to have their leftover technology; so that we may put our private lives on public display, where they monitor it with their now more advanced technology, and we've paid for it all. One of the examples of organizations that of recently were a secret is Menwith Hill. It is the largest electronic monitoring station in the world. It is run by the US National Security Agency (NSA), which monitors the world's communication for US intelligence. NSA has had the ability to do speech to text translation by means of computer for a long time, where its main use was to monitor international and domestic phone calls and print the conversations that interested them. This has now been expanded to include emails, faxes, and general web surfing. Spy satellites, cables, microwave radio links provide the needed information. Government has built the network to monitor us and it does not want us to be able to put a stop to it. If we ask about it, the government will deny it, or it simply makes it a crime to ask. As the Internet continues to grow throughout the world, more governments may try to impose their views onto the rest of the globe through regulations and censorship. If too many regulations are incited the Internet, as a tool, will become nearly useless; and the Internet as a mass communication device and a place for freedom of mind and thoughts, will become non-existent. All users, servers, and people who love Internet must regulate themselves, so as not to force government regulations that may stifle the best communication instrument in history. The government should rethink its approach to the censorship and its restrictions, allowing the Internet to continue to grow and mature on their own. As the issue stands now, there seems to be only two real solutions. One would be the adoption of government controls that would infringe on peoples’ rights to free spe...
