should internet access be censored or limited in schools?

Ok, if certain things need to be blocked in schools, why doesn't the school just do it? Why do we have to pass laws, create another big federal bureaucracy, and put people in jail that violate that law, to accomplish this? Why can't indiviudual schools and/or districts just do that, wtihout having another damned law passed?

 

With the exception of elementary schools, I'm totally against filtering and censoring of the Internet.

I once wrote a paper saying that filters in libraries discriminatie against those who can't afford Internet at home. I mean, why should only those with money be able to access porn?

 

Isn't porn constitutional, because of freedom of speech and such? So that kind of makes it hard for a law to be passed to censor it everywhere, right?

But, something is no longer your constitutional right if it infringes on the rights of others. So maybe the right for people to look at "inappropriate" things is overrided by, say, a parents right to keep their kid from seeing such things. Or, maybe the right of a religious person to not see something that is a sin in their religion, like porn.

It doesn't really matter if its someone else looking at it, shocking things like pictures, whether they be very sexual or very violent, are kind of hard to ignore when they are on a computer near you. Text is different unless you enjoy reading over strangers shoulders, so I don't really think that should be censored.

I don't really think bad stuff popping up on search engines is much of a problem. If you put innocent words in, very probably you are going to get something innocent out. And, even things that have sexual meanings behind them. I tried "Little Women", "puppy love", "booby", "dick" and "dicks" into Google with no filter on, and I didn't get anything innopropriate. The only thing that really did was "pussy," but I think now that word is an more or less an anachronism now anyways, at least for the "cat" meaning. "Pussy cat" cat did turn up a few pages, which is kind of sad in my opinion.

Of course, in the end none of that really means anything, because the ads on the side were all inappropriate. Google ads always assume the worse

 

And here is another good thing to add. It is the school's computers, so they should be allowed to set the rules. Like if you have a smoker visit and decide to light up in your decidedly non-smoking house, you have the right to tell them to put it out or go outside, because it's YOUR house.

 

i'm a highschool studen't and i think that highschool computers should have filters for porn and innappropriate sites. I think sites like myspace can defntly distract student and that the administration has that right. in my expeirince with the internet almost nothing get blocked unless it causes a problem i have gotten onto site i shoudln;t have.

 

i completely agree with all that. When i was in school i couldn' even get the information i was told to get for projects because it was blocked. its a bunch of shit. the internet is there for a purpose. whoever doesn't want kids on it should go fuck themselves.



I am not a slave to a god that does not exist.

And I am not a slave to a world that doesn't give a shit.

 

yeah but doesnt the right of keeping them from looking at it infringe on their right to look? if it works one way it should work the other way around also shouldnt it?