rights of users who wish full freedom. The web is unlike any other form of publishing today. It allows people to publish quickly and quietly. People can set up pages that are unavailable unless one knows the address. This allows for the publishing of child porn and other dangerous material such as instructions for bomb making available without even the owner of the computer knowing about it. People believe it must be strictly controlled; they can set up links to bring people to web pages they don’t want to see and can subject them to images and text about the basest forms of immorality. Children can use the web to find pictures, videos, and texts about subjects that are not suitable. Bradsher sates that “the web should be afforded the same protections as currently apply to the printed word” (4). To ban certain newsgroups and web sites would force the pornography “underground” (Bradsher 4). People would still post their files but would have to do so under cover. This would mean those not wanting that material could have it forced upon them. “Individual users and parents, not the government, should decide what material is appropriate for their children” (Bradsher 4). Parents can make use of the new porn blocking software to stop children accessing sites, which they feel, are inappropriate for children. Bradsher states that “blanket censorship effects very serious and worthwhile organizations like those involved in the fields of breast cancer, rape, HIV/aids and others working on behalf of marginalized and disadvantaged groups” (4). People must be entitled to view and obtain whatever information they want to as long as they are not hurting other people in the process. Those in favor of internet censorship propose different measures to deal with the internet such as: “make it a criminal offense to transmit child pornography across the internet; make it illegal to send u...
