The Prosecution Of Child Pornography In Australia

The internet offers material to a child that is important to their education and upbringing, and it provides them with promise and hope in this new age of technology. It is also a source of concern; the internet provides children with the vulnerability of exposure to sexually explicit materials. This essay will cover the ways in which the exposure to sexually explicit content can corrupt the future generation of children, in which ways in can influence their future and future decisions, and how the ‘pornification’ of society is damaging the children. Searching for pornographic material or sexual content is as easy as searching the word sex into any search bar, where it will come along with videos, photos, or even chatrooms.

As technology has progressed and with the internet flourishing over the past 20 years, in comes the inevitable chance of finding porn. A computer with internet access can typically be found in almost every household in the country, and thus –the increase of porn exposure. For males in particular who are more likely to search for it, pornography becomes available at every corner of the web by a simple Google search to a free porn site, or even in advertisements. The porn exposure typically begins at an early age, “9 out of 10 boys are exposed to pornography

Internet censorship is the control or suppression of the publishing or accessing of information on the Internet. This can include blocking entire websites, blocking parts of certain websites, prohibiting certain search engine keywords, monitoring individual internet use, and punishing individuals for this use. On a smaller scale, companies censor access to certain websites to increase productivity in workers or decrease chances of a sexual harassment lawsuit. Parents may block certain website on their family computers in an attempt to maintain their child’s innocence. On a much larger scale, entire governments can censor or track the Internet use of its constituents.

In this paper, I will compare and contrast Internet censorship in Canada and China. While China is widely known for censoring the Internet for political reasons, Canada remains relatively free of censorship. Through this paper I argue that the large differences between censorship in Canada and China are due to their inherent political systems. Currently, China is the leading country in Internet censorship technology, policy and practice. By comparing China, a secular country, to Canada, I intend to show one of the biggest contrasts in censoring ideologies in the world.

ternet censorship is a great tool that groups can use to hide sensitive information, but can be easily abused. I learned that lots of companies are bullied into using Internet Censorship to conform to societal norms, due to intimidation, or out of fear of legal or other consequences. It has become such a normal idea of blocking any information that gets a minority group offended, that people don’t even think twice when they see it. Thankfully, total censorship of information is very difficult or impossible to achieve due to the underlying distributed technology of the Internet.

Essentially, what a nation’s Internet censorship scheme protects may not necessarily be the same as what other countries would censor. One could define the Internet as a network comprising of many other networks that are connected globally. Hence, there are no whereabouts to determine the exact start and end points of the Internet – it is just not possible. Nations have different views on what should be censored, depending on many factors such as past history as well as the political and economical situation. Moreover, even if the government of a country censors risqué material in their country, there would still be other business from overseas who will import this material into the nation and hence, the Internet censorship scheme would be rendered as a failure.

Censorship is a very controversial issue in the world with many different types and has many positive and negative effects on us. Censorship is looked at by many as a necessity in people’s lives while others believing it to be a bane that annoys and bothers them. The advocates to censorship believe that it protects and keeps our youth safe from corruption that could affect them in negative ways. People who hate censorship believe it to be a burden on us and keep us from getting what we need sometimes. Different types of censorship such as pornographic censorship have positive effects like keeping the youth safe from corruption by some materials, but it also has negative effects like limiting the amount of materials that people can use for things like research.

There has been much debate about the commonwealth’s and the Australian communications and media authority’s campaign to give the Internet censorship that is not required. For reasons such as freedom to talk about ideas, to talking to people around the world. In china there are estimated to be around 30 thousand police surfing the web, covering up websites the government does not want you looking up. Things such as just searching up “human rights” will bring you to a page that says you cannot access, and this is mainly the cause of communism.

One of the most common problems and seemingly the most known is China’s struggle with internet censorship. “As long as there has been internet, China has sought to

The Internet is a global network of vast information. With a few clicks, an individual can have access to up to 200 million web-sites filled with educational and recreational information. The Internet is not regulated in anyway (Carnegie Library 1). It is accessible throughout the entire world from the North to the South, to the early morning sunrise and dark sunsets. Different ethnicity and backgrounds come together linked upon this network resembling a connection of one body in unity. Sadly, issues arise creating concern for users, focusing particularly on minors. Pornography is one of the inappropriate materials on the Internet for minors. This material is harmful to young impressionable minds. Pornography is tearing and

The points made by the Prime Minister (as stated above), about protecting children from the dark online world, are completely justified. The online world can have an adverse influence on children. According to the NSPCC:

According to the textbook, censorship is a way used by governments or religious institutions to supervise or regulate the public access to offensive or harmful materials (Quinn 2012, p.496). Internet censorship applies the same discipline which regulates the public access to harmful content on internet. Nowadays, internet is a place with huge potential for growth. Statistics suggest that the total growth of new internet users is 566.4% from December 31, 2000 to 2012 (Internet World Stats 2012) (Refer to Appendix one). In the mean time, the resources and contents on the internet are growing rapidly at an uncontrollable rate. To some extent, there are almost no

The Internet was made to be freely used so that anyone could share their ideologies without any censorship. But throughout history, different types of societies have practiced censorship in one way or another. Censorship is any action taken by society to control access to ideas and information. The issue is increasingly important due to the rapid development of new communication technology; that is easily accessible. With the increase in technology many people are arguing over the controversial issue of Internet censorship whether it should or should not be allowed.

Internet censorship does not only happen in the United States either. In Russia, a Wikipedia page was ordered to be blocked because it had information about a banned type of cannabis. President Vladimir Putin has passed laws that block websites that contain child pornography, indorse suicide, or have drug-related content. Although blocking some of these websites can be good, it is also not fair to take away information about these topics (Winning). Similarly, in China the government also censors the internet. “The Great Firewall” phrase was coined to describe the censorship. The government has blocked anything that seems hostile towards the Communist Party’s view. They have blocked Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Twitter. Google has even been blocked and people can only use the heavily censored search engine Baidu. This means that the government can control what websites you can look at on a certain topic. For example, if the Chinese government does not want people being influenced by democracy they will block any websites that pertain to democracy. People are not the only ones affected by internet censorship either (Denyer).

Internet censorship is developing far and wide and influences us, regardless that as United States citizens, we have additional technological opportunities than what many other nations do. Numerous Americans underestimate the opportunities that living in the United States permits us. Whether we are sending electronic mail, posting on our social media pages, or seeking out the latest news, we are ensured the opportunity of self-expression and an inexhaustible amount of information right at our fingertips. Censorship takes control of people's expression, and many countries, governments, and leaders support it for this reason. Internet Censorship in the United States in comparison to different nations brings to light the global and ethical issue regarding the basic human rights of education, communication, and freedom.