Should, in general, a government be aloud to censor the world wide web?

[darkbeaver]

I'm not personally worried about it, I encrypt all my stuff in gyberish 2.1 it can't be cracked. I do believe the usual collection of perverts should be harrassed but these days it's very hard to separate the good from the bad. After the war we'll have to act on it.

 

[MikeyDB]

I heard about that somewhere else. NSA has been monitoring and copying a lot of traffic. Has quite a few Americans pissed off, and rightly so. Eroding liberties don't sit well south of the border, as well they shouldn't.

I'm not certain that the right to promote pornography and "conspiracy theories" is something the average American would regard as protected under the first amendment...

Americans (and Canadians to a significant degree) have been conditioned to fear. Whether we regard the current geopolitical maelstrom as yet another cyclic blip on the radar of human evolution or the product of vested interests, fear serves the purposes of those who'd stifle debate and work to divide energy and opinion to selfish ends.

We have a "war on terror" to facilitate fear and as long as the warmongers and greedy can manipulate though this vehicle we will only see more and more of it.....

 

[Tonington]

I'm not certain that the right to promote pornography and "conspiracy theories" is something the average American would regard as protected under the first amendment...

Not by some, certainly by others. Emails are certainly something most Americans and Canadians would resent intrusion upon. Documenting dissenters and the like. Not kosher.

 

[L Gilbert]

Um, "allowed" would be the correct word, but I definitely think censorship is needed. At least SOMEONE should censor a$$holes that toss trojans, spam, phishes, and whatever else around. Otherwise, leave people to look at, read, and post whatever they want. After all, isn't that why we have filters?