When the Internet began in 1989 it was a place for educated, responsible people. People used primarily for educational purposes and as a place to look for like-minded individuals and common points of view. After about a decade, the Internet had become mainstream. It is now a place that most people would consider the absolute definition of freedom. A place where anything and everything is fine. Of course, this kind of freedom comes with great danger. Cyberbullying, unrestricted pornography, lots of inappropriate content, and what the government feared most, a gathering of anti-government rebels who leak government secrets and draw others to their cause. With these things on the Internet many people believe that there should be some form of restriction on the Internet, some form of censorship. I believe they are wrong for many reasons. The Internet should not be censored as it is by its very nature a place where information is accessible even to the average man. Censoring the Internet is equivalent to censoring news that is contrary to the First Amendment, freedom of speech, freedom of the press and freedom of petition/assembly, freedom of religion and freedom of association. The First states: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or restrict freedom of speech or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances. The Internet should not be censored because the information on it is important to someone, anyway. Everyone should be allowed to publish whatever they want, as part of their rights to free speech and freedom of the press. If you don't like something on the Internet... half a sheet of paper... it only took a few days to prepare a response. It came in the form of a little online video of a fluffy alpaca, featuring an exuberant children's choir singing the wonders of a mythical Chinese animal, the “Grass and Mud Horse.” In Chinese “alpaca” also means, almost in tone, “to fuck your mother”. The same goes for the "grass mud horse". “He Xie” (harmony, and therefore censorship) is phonetically very close to “river crab”. Here is the alpaca song: The “grass and mud horse” (fuck your mother) lives in the desert of Ma Le (your mother's pussy). This creature fights the “river crabs” (harmony/censorship) to save the “grasslands” (homonym for “freedom of expression”). It was a very raw and joyful protest. But since then harmony reigns again, both over the living and the dead. Any reference to the children who died in the Sichuan earthquake last year is immediately harmonized.