From: Andrew Johnson
Date: 2006-01-12 23:52:09
This advert appeared in the UK Sunday ‘News of the World’ Paper. Child abuse, terrorism, racism. Should censorship really be the only thing not allowed on the internet? /discuss The World Wide Web. Wide is a bit of an understatement. It just keeps getting bigger, with more and more information being added every day. And that’s the beauty of the internet – anyone, anywhere can put anything on it. It belongs to everyone. A place where freedom of speech can exist. But is it so beautiful when the information put there is the views of paedophiles, terrorists and racists? With no-one regulating the internet, this information is now within reach of more homes than ever before. It a the World Wide Web after all. But who in the world should regulate it? Should it, and could it, be regulated at all? We have a view – that internet providers, governments and individuals the world over can work together to keep the internet open, but safer too. Which is why one of the things that we do is support the Internet Watch Foundation. set up to monitor and minimise the availability of child abuse images online. But where does censorship begin and freedom of speech end? www.checktheevidence…
