In Pennsylvania, the attorney general is trying to get a court order to block illegal pornography, if he succeeds this will lead to the regulating of other inappropriate materials. Though some people believe that it is wrong to regulate the Internet, I believe that it is a good idea to regulate pornography and other inappropriate material from the Internet because this would make it safer for children and young teens to surf the web. This regulation would keep out some undesirable people that are profiting from these websites.
I do not believe that the Internet should be controlled like other countries such as Vietnam, Cuba, China, and others do, but there should be something done so that children are not exposed to materials that they do not need to see or be familiar with.
In Vietnam, the government has too much control over the Internet. They control it through technical and legal means. The government does it to control sexually explicit sites, but the Open Net Initiative has found that the Vietnamese government is really trying to control political and religious material that could be used to undermine Vietnam’s one party-system. Trying to control religious material and keep it from the people is wrong, but their government thinks it is right. They don’t want people to have access to material that can challenge their communist government and politics. Vietnam is among other countries in Southeast Asia that control what the people can do on the Internet and what they can see. They also have control over what the people do in cybercafe’s. It is good that Vietnam has let its people use the Internet, and wants the Internet to help the economic growth, but it seems wrong that they want to control it in order to stop the people from challenging the political arena.
