The Dangers Of Censorship In Public Schools

Censorship has always been a problem that government has always faced, there is a very fine line between censorship and protecting the population, mainly teens who dont kow how to use the web aka what can be seen as harmful data. Social media has been one of those aspects for teens who do not know how to use the web in many eyes. The government, educational institutions as well as companies have always used filtering software to prevent their students and their employees from accessing what they would know as a harmful data. This is used to prevent students at school from having negative online experience from accessing content that is deemed inappropriate. In a bigger picture, the government also had attempted to block data and content that they see as being a threat to their political ideas. To many who actually thinks about it, it seems at times to prevent any uprising from people. The internet was created for the governement to control it, they the one that controls what we see and what will never be erase. For instance, whenever someone posts on snapchat or facebook, the things they post dont usually get deleted permantely. The government has it stored some where and …show more content…
Secondly they believe that it is easier if parents spent the time to discuss with their teen on how to keep safe while being on the internet.It also prevens themselves from contents they may find disturbing or harmful. Though the censorship of this data is vital in protecting the children, researchers have warned that there have been cases of institutions and parents “overblocking” legitimate web surfing data. This can include a range of things including, information on sex, drugs and other harmful substances. This is one of the negatives of using these filtration