DOES THE INTERNET NEED CONTROLS OR CENSORSHIP? IF SO, WHAT KIND?

The internet is a constant fixture in human lives. People who have access to the internet enjoy loads of benefits over the ones who don’t have access. In the present world, it has become a vital necessity to be able to operate devices and use the internet. The basic skills needed for any job have become the use of computers for typing or searching something online.

The use of internet has increased productivity, opened up the knowledge area and provided us with everything that we ever desire. The internet is such a wide space that if you think about something and search, chances are that you are going to find information about it. The problem arises that the data available comes without any filters.

Does Internet need censorship ?

There is information about everything available easily online. More often than not, the ads and pop-ups appear to be a little graphic in content. Sometimes, information about a specific topic is searched while you stumble upon certain graphic content without even searching. For example, a girl was searching for ‘social control’ for her sociology project and few links led her to some pornographic content.

This happens way too often. Some websites give misleading headings to collect traffic. The internet needs to be censored since it is not hard for an innocent person to stumble upon harsh, questionable, shocking, or graphic content on websites. Some websites coerce people into consuming pornographic content which should be banned.

Reasons for censorship of Internet

• Censoring sexual, violent or traumatic content which is harmful to everyone involved can be crucial.
• By censoring the data, our private and confidential data can remain safe. Harmful sites will be blocked which would ensure the safety of sensitive data.
• Children get lazy due to excessive use of the internet. With censorship, the data would be limited and restricted. They won’t be able to download malicious software or access harmful websites.
• Some websites are violent in nature which makes people traumatised. For example, a certain section of the web called red area contains websites that have live stream murders, rape etc. They can make people traumatised or aggressive. Censorship of internet would disable such websites for access.
• By censoring the internet, there will less abuse by anonymous people. Presently, people abuse each other anonymously for simple pleasure sake,
• Internet censorship does not hinder any freedom. It only maps the virtual world with real-life ethics.