en looking for it. For example “pop ups” open up when you go to certain web sites even though you never click on it. And obscenities and pornography isn’t all of the harmful material on the Internet that children can access. There are sites on how to make a bomb, how to hi-jack a car, and how to use a gun, as well as almost anything and everything imaginable. This can lead to serious or deadly results. Children don’t have the right mentality to posse’s information like “How to create a bomb”, because they might to build a bomb for “fun”. Many schools still are required to use a filtering program to censor the research that students do in school. The Board of Education has installed a filter on its computer system that blocks students from gaining access to any web sites that include categories like news and sex education. Even those of major new outlets, policy groups, and scientific and medical organizations were even blocked. This blocking program makes it almost impossible for students to do sophisticated research projects on the Internet in school. Teachers and parents have complained to the Board of Education. “The blocking program sweeps far too broadly,” (Hartocollis) comments Morman Segel, Executive Director of the civil liberations group. Teachers and parents feel it would be more efficient to use a filtering program that allows the Board of Education to set the standards and decide what to block and what not to block instead of the current program they have called I-Gear, which does not allow this option. In conclusion I feel that the Internet should be censored, not by the government, but by the individual. If a parent feels the need to keep their child away from the dangers of the Internet, they can use a filtering program on their computer. The Internet can be a very safe and helpful resource for children to learn and to do research...
