Controversy Over Internet Censorship

The debate over whether governments should execute censorship has grown more contencious. Cultural development, entertainment and other aspects are actively or negatively influenced by large amounts of uncontrollable information. Whether governments set up censorship to Internet and other relative territories? Ideally, appropriate censorship is helpful, such as to social safety, teens’ education and art development. However, if governments unduly employ censorship, there also are some issues happened. Social stability partly depends on information dissemination, although limiting information could keep society safe, citizens cannot obtain their freedom. Teens now overly rely on Internet for their study and entertainment, but unhealthy images …show more content…
Two conceptions of art and entertainment are often confused, thus these works would be regarded as pornographic content, when artists create the works including body art or updating thinking. For example, distinguishing both the conceptions is tricky, especailly defininng the content with sexual components. Now in some countries, they have had laws to against “the content” in art and entertainment. The laws show that if content includes sexy images or relative components, so that people who disseminate these would be punished (Heins, 1998, p.4). However, in the territory of art, sex, sin and negative thouhgts have increasingly become a main social issue (Heins, 1998, p1). By setting up censorship to libraries in schools, studnets can be avoided to unwittingly obtain some books including dirty words or etreme thoughts, when these are not of this age people in need (Heins, 1988, p.2). Although censorship to art can limit so-called sexy information, it can block cultural development. Art acts as an vital role, as it explores our society and stimulates humans’ development in a variety of territories (Heins, 1998, p.5). All in all, it is nessisary that the governments should endow artists’ expression …show more content…
The freedom of obtaining information is important to humans, as when they can watch actual news or information, the society could keep safe, fair and democratic. As a tool, computer has acted an increasingly significant role in some territories in early education and academic learning, so filtering information will damage its effect. In addition, the development of art is related to a variety of social sensitive facotrs, but the nature of art is to stimulate the prograss of society or improve humans’ creativity. The explosion of the Intenet will bring more debates to society, but to deal with issues with its development, governments could do tips of how to helthily use conouter or other meida, instead of filterting the