Protecting the Kids or Silencing the People?
After reading the article about the rating system proposed for the Internet I was actually very concerned with this proposed plan. This plan that is proposed seems like a scare tactic by the government on the people that will only infringe on Free Speech. Now do not get me wrong I am all for protecting the children but I do not think this is the answer.
The rating system that has been proposed is extremely broad and will incorporate many websites that are Innocent of containing explicit material. This general grouping has been done before and lost in court and this confuses me as to why they would just try to propose this type of generalization again like nothing is wrong.
This scare tactic wants to press ISP to track there customers and report to the government with their findings. This is absolutely absurd and needs to be shot down immediately before it is passed and begins to scare people into just not expressing any emotions or art in fear that they will be prosecuted. Companies need to look at Google for how they protected and stood up for its customers and told the government to leave because they were not giving up records.
