with SOPA, USA are just trying to rule internet and all of us. Fbi shut down Megaupload this morning, it's kind of a cold war.
I don't think SOPA is the answer but the internet does need to be governed, and websites should be responsible for the content they have on them. If you have a guy riding in your car, and he has a bunch of stolen merchandise and you know about it, then you should get in trouble. How is hosting a website with stolen music or videos being displayed any different. I know a regulated internet wouldn't be near as great, but it should have been regulated to begin with. SOPA sounds pretty crazy the way it would work, but something should be done about the complete lack of accountability that the internet has.
I've had my identity stolen twice and nothing was done. The first time the local police even tracked down who it was, but they were clear across the country and couldn't afford to do anything about it. They said that the FBI was also willing to take up the case and go get them.
People need to be governed to a point. If not then everything just gets out of control. The internet should not be different or it's going to teach kids that you can just take what you want, and give children and even stronger feeling of entitlement to objects they can't get themselves without stealing. The internet has and is an amazing tool, but it needs some form of regulation. It needs to come on the form of being highly moderated by the sites for all the content that is displayed on them. If you want to post a picture it should have to be looked at first by someone at the site to determine it fine to display.
Take this site for instance. Inappropriate content makes it on here sometimes and then a mod removes it and gives the person an infraction. It needs to be stopped before it appears to prevent the content from being displayed. I know this sounds ridiculous, but that's how it should be. I would have never thought this way until I had children. Now schools are wanting younger, and younger kids to do research online for papers and even some school work online. Kids younger and younger are being exposed to the internet all the time, and something needs to be done to tone it down some.
It's ridiculous that all you have to do to view 18 and over content online is put your age in. You should at least need to put in some form of identification. Maybe people who want to use those sites or view that material could be given a number or identification card that you can put in to access age appropriate material online. Something very general that doesn't have much personal information except your age and name. Or maybe your ISP could limit your access through your login based on the age of the person logging in.
I'm not all about the age thing, that's just one example of something that is to easily bypassed to allow people to see something they shouldn't be seeing. I'm not near smart enough, or tech savvy enough to know how to fix it, all I know is the internet does need to be accountable for what your site contains. No one on here can honestly tell me they are for a world of complete anarchy, and that's exactly what the internet is. Do what you want, post videos of whoever you want, and say and take whatever you want with no repercussions. That's not a place that people should be going, and our youth being exposed to.
