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Can we regulate the Internet? For years, many experts have come from both sides of the fence. The arguments for and against the possibility of Internet regulation ran the gamut of reasons and explanations: from technological to ethical aspects.
First let us present the moral aspect of the question. Internet regulation will curb pedophilia, porn, violence, tutorials on how to make bombs and ways to commit suicide or murder. This is what proponents say. The Internet has evolved such that anything and everything is easily accessible and immediately available to those who look for it. Even to children. Hence, it should be censored. People against regulation have postulated that the free nature of the Internet became the way it is now: progressive, innovative, and responsive to the times. Regulating it would curtail all that these represent.