Censorship on the Web
Posted by Shin
It's always been a big issue, and will always be a big issue. However, as long as we have a specific amendment in our Constitution, the U.S. right to freedom of speech will never disappear.
I say this rather loosely, because everyone who has at least one year of "the real world" under their belt (and no, I'm not talking about the TV show) knows that our government has the ability to amend amendments, and make other laws on top of laws. What an intricate system we have here, what with all the contradicting and humorous laws set forth into society nowadays.
Perhaps the most debatable issue about free speech now is the idea of free speech on the internet. For the past ten or so years of this amazing tool we have thought of more and more ways to say and do what we want on the internet, while in turn, our government and angry mothers across the nation have made more and more ways to censor what we read and say.
Now, I can understand libel and slander on a news report being bad for our president (hell, the Daily Show makes fun of him all the time but it's still around. Is this lack of censorship or is it simply because G.W. Bush just absolutely loooooooooves Comedy Central?), but when people get so upset at what "frozen_peas13" says on some Freewebs forum, it really makes me laugh. Is your reputation really at stake when some anonymous poster says something bad about you to his friends on a five member forum? I really don't think so.
Maybe one day we'll learn to live in peace and harmony, but until then... we might as well nuke the web, don't you think?
