Thursday, December 5, 2013

What controls should be placed on blogs, if any?

There should be a limited, yet efficient, amount of control for the Internet, or in this case, blogs.  There must be a way to control the Internet that does not involve the destruction of anonymity, abuse of the power over the Internet, or destroying privacy.  If the blog contains bad content, such as language or explicit images, then mark it and warn visitors before hand.  There is a reason that internet filters and monitors exist; to control what can or cannot be seen.  We have all the power to avoid these things, but who has the right or power to enforce it?  Family?  Government?  Website owners?  It's our choice to make if we want to put a large amount of monitoring or a minimal amount of monitoring.  If there is clearly cyberbullying on a blog and it is obviously affecting the victim, then the account should be flagged or shut down by the website admins or owner(s).  Make a better account system: people who are banned or shut down can simply create a new account, make sure that those kind of people can't create new accounts for a period of time.  We have this capability to prevent most of these things on the internet, we just need to have the willpower and avoid taking the easy way out, which at the end, affect more people negatively.  ~Collin Blasing

No comments:

Post a Comment