Censorship

Censorship To some people actually sitting down and writing a letter with pen and paper seems prehistoric. Email seems to be the only way to communicate in today’s world. It is so common and easy even children are using computers to talk to friends as well as pen pals from across the globe. With so easy access and so many people using the Internet there are bound to be all types of information. As a result, there is a great deal of information that has been deemed “indecent”. Congress has attempted to censor this information with the federal “Communications Decency Act of 1996 a controversial piece of legislation signed into law by President Clinton on February 8, 1996 (www.fmew.com/archive/censor). There are many advocates to pass this law censoring the internet, claiming that there is much information that is immoral and indecent for children as well as adults to view. As with the saying that there are “two sides to every story”, and with this story there is also an opinion that the Internet should not be censored. The reasoning behind the opinion that the Internet should not be censored is because it is not Congress’s internet, information, children, immoral, should, freedom, view, purpose, people, government, congress, censoring, speech, parents, one, laws, indecent, censorship, censored, because, states, personal, much, job, created, court, constitution, able, world, violation, united, say, right, interest