Vote Results (Week 4)

Do you think online censorship should be reinforced?

Below is the results of the survey poll , 58.33% of the respondents agreed that online censorship should be reinforced because it affects the morality of the individual negatively, whereas 25 % of the respondents agreed to the reinforcement of online censorship to enhance national security. The remaining 16.67% is the percentage of respondents disagreed to reinforce online censorship because it is the individual's responsibility for their behavior. No respondent disagree that online censorship reinforcement would restricts an individual's freedom of expression.

From the poll, this can be concluded that majority supported that reinforcement of online censorship is important to protect the morality of the society. Well, like what I mentioned in the earlier blogs, the purpose of online censorship is to guard the little ones from being involved in pornography, online gaming, and online gambling and so on.

Online censorship definitely protects the national security. Defense Ministry signifies the country state of life. Once the defense being corrupted, everything goes hay wired. Just imagine that Google map can zoomed into the location of Putrajaya or worst still White House or Pentagon where the leader of the world is. Terrorism rate would increase tremendously like a thermometer in a boiling soup. The world literally will be out of control.

Some believed that online censorship should not be reinforced because it is our personal role to manage and control your attitude and behavior. What are we, if this online technology controls our lives instead of us controlling. We don't want technology to be the Master and we the slaves.

There are various reasons on why no respondent actually agree that online censorship should not be reinforced because it is violating or restricting an individual freedom of expression. This is because nothing can change the fact that we are Asians. For example, since young, we have been taught that sex is a taboo word, the unspoken word. Everyone will give you a stare if you ever mentioned the issues regarding this. Unlike the Westerners, they are more open-minded compared to Asians. They are the pioneers of arts and communication and mostly everything. They had always appreciated that the nakedness of the physical body is actually an art of expression. In US, The First Amendment strongly protects an individual's freedom of expression and speech. Well I would said, too much exposure can be a destruction.

Please leave your comments.
Have a great week ahead! Cheers =)

Vote Results (Week 3)

What is the most appropriate way to create awareness about online censorship to the people?



The third poll question of week 3 shows that 55% of people think that internet is the most appropriate way to create awareness about online censorship to them, while 30% of people said that advertisement will be the most appropriate way to create awareness about online censorship to them. Besides that, there are 10% of people think that articles in newspaper and magazine is the most appropriate way to create awareness about online censorship to them, whereas, 5% of people think that online censorship as a compulsory topic in IT related subjects will be the most appropriate way to create awareness.

From the analysis of this poll question, we can conclude that internet would be the most appropriate way to create awareness about online censorship to the people. I think that majority of the people chose internet as the most appropriate way to create awareness about online censorship to them is because most of the time they are using internet. Hence,they will be able to aware about online censorship. Besides that, they will get to know more about online censorship by surfing the internet. I think that minority of the people have chose compulsory topic in IT related subject as the most appropriate way to create awareness about online censorship is because not everyone take IT as their subject. Moreover, there are only few people who have take IT as their subject and not everyone take IT as their subject. Therefore, it have less people to choose this answer.

I myself have chose internet as the most appropriate way to create awareness about online censorship because most of the time I'm using my computer to surf the internet. Thus, I will get to know more about online censorship through internet.

Please drop some comment for me.. =)

Vote Results (Week 2)

Do you think online censorship can benefit national security?

The second week’s poll results states that 72% of people have agreed that online censorship benefits the national security, whereas, 14% of people have disagreed that online censorship benefits the national security and another 14% of people aren’t sure if online censorship benefits the national security or not.

From the analysis we can conclude that online censorship does benefits the national security.

How?

Exposures of immorality elements and political or racial issues can evoke chaos in the country. Such elements or issue reaches the mass faster by internet compared to other media. To overcome such dilemma, online censorship helps to either ban or reduce people from viewing such elements. For instance, the newer generation is so involved in internet activities like games, music and video portals where they can easily be influenced by the vulgar or violent elements in it and can you imagine the consequence of it when people practice it around?

Another example is the recent threat to the nation which is dead of an Indian guy in the police custody. It has become a racial riot because the family claims as he has been killed in police custody and the Indians claim it as bias behaviour of police towards the Indians. This is because of the distribution of the images and videos through Youtube and social networking site like Facebook. Incites people to join networking groups to discuss information about this case which maybe false news, they seem to interpret among themselves and at the end it rises up people to be against the police and the government.

Now can you get a clear picture of how tricky it becomes when online censorship was not enforced at this time? Online censorship is not used when it is needed, that is why some people assume that it doesn't benefits national security.

To stop this kind of issues to happen, reinforcement of the online censorship law has to be made so that the misuse of the internet could be finally stopped or not the history will repeat itself.

To those who were not sure if online censorship benefits national security, we hope the information that we gave helped you to get a better picture how online censorship benefits the national security. We will get back to you with more exciting poll questions. Don't hesitate to drop us your comments.

Have a great day ahead =)

Vote Results


Do you know what is online censorship?

The first poll question of week 1 shows 91% of people have agreed that they know what is online censorship and 9% of people have agreed that they don’t know about online censorship.

From this analysis on the poll question we can conclude that majority of them know about online censorship and only a minority of people doesn’t know about online censorship. Yet we would like to make a note that, those who know about online censorship wouldn’t know the purpose of it. I bet many would be saying, ‘Yeah of course I know what online censorship is, just that I do not know the purpose of it.'

Online censorship remains anonymous to many people. To avoid such circumstances, from the young age children has to be taught on the right exposure and beneficial usage of the internet. Where as, the youths of today are regardless seemed not to know the purpose and the use of online censorship. This leads to the misusage of the internet in the wrong way and getting engaged into immorality behaviours.

At this stage, online censorship stands as the fencing to stop the over exposure of elements like explicit or violence which can affect the mentality of an individual and more or likely to be taken into action. Creating awareness on the purpose and the need of online censorship will help many people to learn and understand it better.

I hope the information that we posted makes the first move as in to help in creating awareness about online censorship to the youths of today. Do stick with us, we’ll be back with more information and discussions. =)

Online censorship??

In the peak of science and technology, internet is no longer a luxury but nonetheless a necessity for the city dwellers to be survived in. Especially these days, many are not able to live a day without internet. Ask around you, and the answer will be “Where can! Internet is my oxygen”. The Internet, as an integrating force, has combined the technology of communication and computing to provide instant connectivity and global information services to all of its users.

As we approach the new millennium, the internet keeps revolutionizing our society, and never stops evolving. Look, and you'll notice how much internet has influence our society especially the youth of today. In my case, my friend on the right is busy facebooking and downloading videos while I'm blogging. Not to mention the other dozen of students. However it is such a waste as internet was widely misused by those who does not value its significance.

This introduces censorship to the field of technology.
So guys, what is online censorship?
Come on, it's time to brush up some of your computer literacy.. =D

It is defined as the supervision and control of the information and ideas on the internet that are circulated among the people within a society. The purpose of censorship is to alter and suppressed parts thought to be objectionable or offensive. For example, materials that are considered immoral or obscene, heretical or blasphemous, seditious or treasonable, or injurious to the national security. Pornography, Negarakuku.. Ring the bell?

Anyway, do share your ideas and comments.. Have a nice day!

Resources

Microsoft Encarta Online Encyclopedia 2008, Censorship [Online HTML] Retrieved 14th January 2009

URL: http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761559522/Censorship.html