One of the best things about the internet is that you can do pretty much anything you want to, without having someone looking over your shoulder. Can you imagine if someone took that away? I know I can't. Here are a few reasons why I think the internet needs to stay the way it is, without rules.
Firstly, the internet is just too large to have rules for everything. There are billions of people who use billions of websites on the internet, and there can't possibly be a way to keep track of all of them. Nor can there possibly be an effective way to exempt certain users from certain rules.
Rules are things that should be broad, and can be applied to everyone. The internet is just too big and diverse to have rules that can be applied to every user.
My second reason for why the internet should have no rules should be pretty obvious. It already has rules. Well, in a way, that is. Most websites already have their own rules and restrictions for what users can and cannot do while on their website. These rules are usually called, "Terms of Use." People are required to follow these terms of use, or they have the risk of having their account deleted on that website. For example, one of the rules at Youtube.com is that users can't have copyrighted material in their videos without the permission of the materials owner. If they ignore this rule one too many times, their account is deleted.
Of course, there remains the question, "What about the kids on the internet?" Well, that just brings me to my third and final reason why there shouldn't be rules. Parents have the option to restrict their kids from going to certain websites. I don't mean they can just tell their kids not to go to certain websites and expect them to listen, I mean they can actually prevent their kids from going to certain websites. On most computers, there is a setting to restrict certain users from doing certain things.
I know this because my mom did it to me when I was nine. Back then, I wasn't exactly an angel, and there would be times when my mother blocked my computer account from playing my favorite online game. However, it's not just games parents can block, they can also block websites that aren't child-friendly. Not to mention that they can teach their kids about the dangers of the internet so they don't have as much to worry about.
Those aren't the only reasons why I think there should be no rules on the internet, but they're the ones that first came to mind.
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