Essay, Research Paper: Censorship On The Internet

Censorship On The Internet I object to the gradual loss of the freedoms promised in the Constitution. This lastoutrage, the loss of part of our Freedom of speech and assembly, contained within thetelecomm act of 96 is just another step along the road to complete police statetakeover. We are being treated like recalcitrant teenagers by those that think theyknow what is best for us, regardless of our feelings. Generally, it is later discoveredthat the proponents of these kinds of controlling maneuvers had something personal togain. Be it power, control, money, sex or property. Those that wrote this bill, pushedfor it, bargained away our rights in order to trade favors for something of their own,should be scrutinized closely, in every aspect of their own lives. If we continue to demonstrate, to march, to speak out, to make our voices and our
wishes heard, maybe-- just maybe, the wise and powerful few will hear, and rescindthis nastiness. Ignorant laws passed by ignorant people in the palaces of Power, if they are ignoredby the mass, soon become unenforceable laws. We, in the United States, are thelaughing stock of the rest of the world that inhabits the Web. A few of our mostignorant politicians in Washington believe that they can control a community thatoverspans borders, oceans, and vast distances. The rest of the civilized world, on theWeb or not, laughs at our arrogance, ignorance and just plain stupidity. This idiocyhas made its way into the "other" mass media, and we, our leaders at least, look likefoolish children. With perseverance we may prevail