Is internet censorship ok or not?

Question

debate on it

Answer 1

Depends on what kind of censorship, as people seem to have a way of twisting the definition to support their cause. If you mean, say, a parent filtering their kid's internet access, or a company filtering their employees or a school their students, then that's perfectly fine, they are providing a service for a specific reason and it's well within their rights to enforce that reason. If you mean taking down sites which condone harassment, slander/libel, hate speech, illegal activity, etc, then yeah that's ok too since we have laws for that reason.

But if you mean, a government censoring sites for any non-illegal reason (ie. to promote any ideal of morals, rather than actual laws), such as banning all p**n, sites with swear words etc, then no that's not cool, as it's up to parents to do that just like in the real word.

Answer 2

My answer to any question about censorship is: "Freedom, Practice It."  While our youngsters must be protected from "adult" content (p**n, extreme violence, predators), most of the internet censorship is political.  The concept of freedom must be spread everywhere.