Internet Censorship

Need for Internet Censorship
A forum where speech and conduct can be hard to regulate, the Internet poses serious problems when it comes to minors accessing inappropriate sites. After all, kiddies’ cartoons and adult magazines are all accessed in the same way and it is this very reason that prompts some kind of control over the access and content of the Internet.
The above brings to light a much debated issue – Is it the responsibility of parents or the government to implement measures to ensure that underage children not be exposed to potentially depraving content?
While a knee-jerk reaction to the problem would be to simply propose censorship, this opposes the “Library Bill of Rights” which stresses that “Materials should not be proscribed or removed because of partisan or doctrinal disapproval.” (“Sex, Censorship, and the Internet”, http://www.eff.org/CAF/cafuiuc.html) The Library Bill of Right protects principles of intellectual freedom developed for li...