Government Monitoring Internet

The idea of the government monitoring internet content stems from good intent, but how can you tell if it has gone too far? Looking at the principle of limited government we see that some principles exist to protect the people. Limited government exists to protect the people from tyranny. Perhaps a good portion of governmental monitoring of content can be viewed as our nation being one step closer to a tyrannical state where there is no limited government. It is this principle that our founding fathers put into place to ensure that no governmental body became all powerful and all seeing. It is an invasion of the privacy, in most cases, of the people who reside in the U.S. How can we begin to feel safe if we are paranoid that our every move is being …show more content…
While watching would be looking at everything people do online. One is clearly a violation of power, while the other is simply a precautionary measure. The way the government monitors our internet browsing has been a topic of hot discussion recently, and will continue to be as generations who thrive with use of the internet continue to feel unsafe in their internet usage. Being a millennial myself I sometimes get a sinking feeling that the government has begun abusing their power as the watchful eye of our nation and it would make me feel safer if our government only monitored instead of watching our every move. I wish that more millennials felt that their government was a watchful eye, instrumental in their safety instead of a stalking cat ready to pounce on their every misstep in the media. This could be step one for the government regaining their protector status in the nation, and also step one for them to feel like less of a negative presence in the lives of its citizens. It all comes back to limited government and the abuse of a power that was originally granted to help protect