Below is the result of poll question of Week 5 which shows 57.10% of voters have agreed that firewall shouldn’t be implemented in colleges and universities because they can’t do further research for their assignments/ project, where as, 42.90 % have agreed that firewall should be implemented in the colleges and universities because people may view unsecured websites and no one agreed that firewall shouldn’t be implemented because it’s their freedom to access to all websites.
From the poll analysis, it shows that many have stated that implementing firewall in colleges and universities becomes a problem for them to do further research for their assignments or projects. This is because, as a college student many of them has lots of assignments and projects to be accomplished and to get those tasks done they need further reading and research by browsing in the internet.
Most of college/ university students access internet by using the computers provided in the free lab. When they tend to browse for information, firewall either blocks the entire website or maybe some elements in a website. For an example, most colleges and universities block the access to Youtube, for some students like advertising students, when they want to view some advertisements as an reference for their assignment, they wouldn’t be able to access to it because firewall blocks the entire Youtube website.
I bet many would be nodding your head in agreement with my statement! =)
In the other hand, 42.90% of people have agreed that firewall should be implemented because people may tend to view unsecured websites. It is fairly agreed that as a student most of us tend to view many unknown websites everyday. Intentionally or unintentionally we tend to view some websites which maybe be unsecured to view. Unsecured is in the sense where the content maybe immoral or worse comes worse it spreads virus. What happens if the virus spread over the entire system? I believe no one would love that to happen. To solve this problem, the college and universities management has too only filter and block the exact website or elements that are harmful to people and not forgetting as a student we also have a big responsibility to avoid ourselves from viewing or accessing to those websites that are unsecured and invite unwanted guest --->viruses. Hopefully people can start using the internet in a more appropriate and safe way.
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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. 
