Who Owns the Internet
The
internet is a resource that belongs to everyone in the world. No one owns the
internet and therefore it shouldn't be censored. It makes no sense to prohibit
what you don’t own. However, certain
types of people have exploited this policy and filled the internet with
contents that are bad especially for children. Imagine your kid going to a porn
site and some form of age verification is not requested. Wouldn't that be a
disaster? That is why censoring the internet for specific people is the better that censoring whole websites for everyone. To understand this concept a little
bit deeper, we must first know the concept of net neutrality.
The
concept of “net neutrality" holds that companies providing Internet
service should treat all sources of data equally. It has been the center of a
debate over whether those companies can give preferential treatment to content
providers who pay for faster transmission, or to their own content, in effect
creating a two-tier Web, and about whether they can block or impede content
representing controversial points of view[1].
As
shown in the previous paragraph, companies decide whether to block a certain
website and which content supplier has higher transmission. It’s all about the “benjamins.”
Also a handful of companies own all of the internet cables and everything and
therefore they give higher transmission to whoever is able to pay more money.
Laws
regarding the internet in general should be made by every single person who
uses the internet. There should be referendums held to decide what the majority
of the people want. This way everyone but the internet companies is happy. However,
laws regarding age or something similar should be common sense and therefore
should be taken as they are (under 18... And the rest of it).
Finally,
inappropriate things that are posted online should be censored by the government,
not the ITU. The ITU is an international organization and to judge what’s inappropriate
and what’s not, one must know the culture and the customs of the people and that
is why the government is more suited determining what’s too inappropriate.
However, there is a fine line between censoring government websites and
censoring porn websites. Governments should only have the right to censor the
latter. It doesn't have the right to judge people based on what they post and they
should let the people know what they are censoring and why.
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