Regulating the Internet
I’m fed up with the unregulated nature of the internet. I love the freedom of websites to post all sorts of useful information, but come on… We have to draw lines somewhere. The obvious problem, and it’s a vicious, terrible one, is pornography. Pedophiles run free on the internet and countless families are being torn apart by pornography addictions. Folks say that there’s freedom of speech rights and all, but aren’t there also freedom rights as to what you want to view and what you don’t want to view?
I was made aware of a project about a year and a half ago calling for creating a clean port 80. I think this is the most valuable solution at the moment.
But the greater problem is this: so much of the internet is run by so many political communities that I foresee the impossibility of satisfying everyone. This last week, I’ve watched all sorts of message boards react to posts in such differing ways that it makes me believe that the internet community can never come to an agreement on anything. All in all, the sites with the most traffic have the most power and the most pull, and if they believe in something, then that is what will stay. Since there’s hardly anything to regulate their decisions, then it follows that the internet isn’t really a truly democratic community, but a monarchy of high-traffic sites.
