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Points and counterpoints arguing for and against censorship of the Internet.

In this article shows the fight between internet security and internet freedom. It shows how much security we get when it comes to our internet freedom.

This site tries to defend are internet rights in relation to other personal rights like freedom of speech, press, and religion. This is also trying to stop the censorship issue against the internet.

Brazil is about to be the first country to pass a internet bill of rights. Such rights include there privacy being protected and freedom to browse what they want.

This is an article from the Huffington Post about Internet censorship. It is specifically talking about SOPA, and the "SOPA blackouts" earlier this year. SOPA is the Stop Online Piracy Act.

This is an article from ABC News earlier this year. It mostly focuses on PIPA, the Protect IP Act. It also contains a few videos on censorship.

This is an article that discusses the limited ability to remain "private" while using any internet source. It explains privacy, and how humans privacy is being violated while using internet sites. It discusses the type of information being collected on you, while using the internet.

The US military is developing software that will let it secretly manipulate social media sites by using fake online personas to influence internet conversations and spread pro-American propaganda. A Californian corporation has been awarded a contract with United States Central Command (Centcom), which oversees US armed operations in the Middle East and Central Asia, to develop what is described as an "online persona management service" that will allow one US serviceman or woman to control up to 10 separate identities based all over the world. The project has been likened by web experts to China's attempts to control and restrict free speech on the internet. Critics are likely to complain that it will allow the US military to create a false consensus in online conversations, crowd out unwelcome opinions and smother commentaries or reports that do not correspond with its own objectives

This article asks the question, "How much privacy is too much?". Some privacy must be protected while on the internet, but too much privacy would be catastrophic too.

This is a recent law in the Uk which bans a freedom that we have in the USA which also maybe leaving us soon. The freedom of internet and file sharing.

This website shows a very good side of why the government should keep away from limiting the personal freedoms in the internet. Also, goes a little into online gambling

Some believe that parents should take control what happen in their families. Those same parents wants the government to handle what happen with other and their lifestyles. The government is trying to decide how to control how a person gambles with or without the interenet. Who are we to tell someone when to gamble and how often to gamble. The internet is a freedom to do what we want to do in it. Each familiy should not be told what to search or what game to play when using the internet.

Republicans and Democrats made a free and open Internet part of their party's 2012 platform.

SOPA and CISPA are congressional bills that are keeping the Internet from being free and open. After several protest against the bills democrats are rethinking there argument and changing there minds.

This article tells of the new bill to stop bad language and any annoying harassment on the internet. Some argue using bad language is their right, others just prefer not to be harassed online with inapropriate language.

An article celebrating the defeat of SOPA and explaining why it is so important. SOPA assumes everyone is guilty instead of innocent until proven guilty.

How the Trade Agreement can effect you. Not does it only censor the internet but also food medication tv, file-sharing. Websites would be in charge of censoring their own site.

This artcile brings up a very good point. Americans are responsible for their own ways and actions, especially on the internet. It also discusses that congress wants people to see both sides of the issue.

THe US government reiterates the importance of freedom of expression as well as the freedom of internet through the Twitter censor policy. While many see it as a bad move, many also see it as a good move to help make freedom of expression fair for all users. Until the policy takes effect, the government cannot see how it works, and decide how to take action, if at all.

Private companies are using tracking devices and selling information to other companies and even law enforcement. It then gets into your privacy should be "justified". There are a couple of links that lead to other pages, one of which tell how we leave behind trails of information with sites that we visit.

Can the U.S. continue without privacy laws in place for its citizens? It basically boils down to if the big industries "can agree on adequate policies that balance privacy and profits." The people are asking for basic privacy laws for the internet, but that would mean a tight leash on big company data collecting and everything else implied.