Should Governments Have the Ability to Block Websites?

We spend over 80 billion a year to have an intelligence apparatus run by idiots at the top. Give me one week there and every time someone downloads from a terrorists site their computer gets infected with a virus they can't get rid of cleaning their drive and destroying the CPU.

Court trials are used to determine innocense/guilt. A lawless & corrupt government such as we have now are the reason that this is becoming a problem. My suggestion is We the People BLOCK THE GOVERNMENT!!!

Actually, this is a legal and freely elected (by a 2-1 margin in electoral college) administration. If your guy lost...I feel sorry for you. Try getting a better candidate next time. The out come might be more to your liking

Not just no but "Hell no!"

absolutely NO!!

Freedom of information act. We should be allowed to choose what websites we have access to without the gov't intervening.

1. Copyright laws and the companies that get rich from them are obsolete and need to be scrapped. They do more harm than good.
2. The UK is, yet again, showing the rest of the free world how to take another step away from freedom. All the Americans who want gun control laws and universal health care need to remember that we broke away from them so we could be a free country.

This reminds me of my time in Saudi Arabia. Almost everything was blocked by the government for reasons they don't even know. I used to use proxy softwares, but the thing that pissed me off is when the software connected me to a server based in freakin China. Thanks for nothing.

NO!!! Stop spending so much time and man power trying to babysit every single person on the internet and every little thing they say and start focusing on our freakin economy before China takes over!!! Where is the land of the FREE I learned about in history class? Leave us alone on the internet!!!

Everything from cute kittens to bomb-making should be allowed to be on the internet.

The internet does not belong to the government. The government needs to stay out of our lives!!!

Depends on the website...

Sites with illegal content, terrorist sites, sites that tell you how to make home-made bombs to name a few that should be banned.
However watching the Government go after the internet for the sake of big pocketed companies is saddening.


England or the UK? Make up your mind...

Who gets to decide. What if governments start labeling those with different political views as subversive or terrorist. This is a very slippery slope

Lets say the Taliban have a website (which they do)... that is a terrorist website, a website that is controlled by a terrorist organisation and promotes terrorism is a terrorist website. No slippery slope here.

What about child pornography websites? Should they be banned or not?
Websites that teach you how to amke home-made bombs?
Etc etc

You make valid points. I would agree they should be banned. However this is a slippery slope. The same tool that could be used for good could also be used for bad.

I'm sure if you would ask Middle Eastern person that had to flee drones if a US military website was a terrorist website he would tell you yes. As for bombs I can just go purchase the anarchist cookbook or should that book to be banned? Only thing I agree that should be banned is child porn and snuff films. Everything else is game.

Start?!

http://www.unitedliberty.org/...

Where do you draw the line about illegal content? The US government's taking down sites that have links to other sites that have pir8'd content. Or sites the RIAA tells them has illegal content, even when it turns out they were actually marketing sites for different record companies.

As for the terrorist sites...these days, every time the government wants to oppress someone, they label him a terrorist. Hack a website? Terrorist. Spill some inconvenient government secrets? Terrorist. Stockpile food? Terrorist.

http://www.networkworld.com/c...

This was sort of inevitable after we were stupid and cowardly enough to accept the Patriot Act.

Sites that tell how to make home-made bombs...really should be protected by both the 1st and 2nd Amendments. We are supposed to be better armed than the military, much less the police.

People have the right to know what is going on

Why start now?

Ignorance is bliss, and it is a fact that the general public like to feel this bliss.

Control the flow of Information control the masses.

I wouldn't put anything past our mussie and euro loving scumbags bunch of gutless cowards and traitors

noo way

They shouldn't, but they do......

This is in England, where the rights of the people can be manipulated at will by a mere vote of the two houses in parliment. So if they really want to do that in England, technically, there is only the fear of not getting re-elected, that MIGHT stop them. Even then, if I recall correctly, the house of commons is elected, but the House of Lords is by birthright, appointment by royalty, or ecclesiastical postion.

But that question here in America? Read the Constitution! (Its the doc limiting Goverment power)

Look closely at the freedom of the press part, then look at the freedom of speach part. Go down a bit and notice some verbiage regarding the "Freedom to assemble" part.

Notice that although the internet had not been invented yet, nobody worth 2 cents would argue that the internet is not the modern day press.

Notice that although internet websites are not physical places where people come and exchange ideas using their freedom of speach, websites are a place on the Web where people can exchage ideas.

Now call me a radical, but I fail to see how we can even ask this question in any seriousness?

The answer to this question is NO! HELL NO! NOT ON MY LIFE NO!

Just read the document and really pay attention to the words people, It is NOT THAT DIFFICULT!

Buddy, I agree with the constitution part, but it's CONSTANTLY being broken.

Unfortunately, we are heading down that path where other companies can block websites of their competitors from their subscribers. It all comes down over the failure to pass Net Neutrality.

Which is kind of funny, in a sad way, given how many people here were "anti" net neutrality when the issue came up.

Yeah. We, as a country, never seem to mind shooting ourselves in the foot.

HELL NO! What are we China? Just stop. The only thing they should block is child pornographic sites.

Better to track the people who run and visit those sites and then keep a *very* close eye on them.

Thats what I mean.

Should the government wipe your arse?

This is much too complicated for this venue.

Exactly.

No gov't in the internet