SEX, DRUGS, and ANARCHY! Now, that I have your attention, we can talk about Internet censorship. Inappropriate material will always be on the internet, and there is no way to completely hide it. All this censorship will damage the atmosphere of the freedom to express ideas on the Internet; therefore, government should not encourage censorship so much. The Net has no certain authority figure, and this makes a problem about what things are appropriate.
             "As anyone who has spent even a short amount of time on the Internet knows, pornography does not magically appear on one's screen the moment your modem connects with a server; 99 percent of the time, explicit material must be sought" (Jarvis, 1). The topic of whether is it necessary to have censorship on the Internet has been argued all over the world. There are a lot of web pages on the World Wide Web devoted to this issue, and many of them are even filtered. People can think how they want to think. As long as it does not directly affect you, why should it matter? If a topic is on your screen that you do not like, simply close it out and move on.
             There is no complete right way to block inappropriate material on the Internet. Either there is to much blocked material or not enough. Anyone can find a backdoor to a restricted webpage if they really felt the need to. This is when things get over blocked. "'I got involved with the fighting of the filtering when I was trying to research the Russian anarchists for my Russian history class, and it was blocked by Web sense in the library...What really got to me was the fact that kids who were writing papers and didn't have the Internet at home got only censored information or none at all" (Binegar in Malcolm, 2). This has happened to me before also. I wrote a paper about the Holocaust for an English class in high school. All the web pages that showed up on the search engine were blocked. I ha...