SHOULD THE INTERNET BE MORE TIGHTLY CONTROLLED?

Recently, the Internet has become an important part of people’s daily lives. According to a Longman dictionary, “the Internet is a network of computer connections that allows millions of computer users around the world to exchange information”. Wikipedia says that “the internet has its origin in the cold war in 1969. America wanted a way of contact that would not be broken by army attacks”. Today, it is not too much to say that people cannot live without the Internet as they use it at school, work, and home. However, it is also true that the Internet causes some big social problems as well. Therefore, the Internet should be more tightly controlled.
Today, blogs and social networking services have become popular, and many people write diaries on the Internet. It is a good thing that people started writing diaries again thanks to the Internet after a long time when they forgot to keep diaries. Also, through those websites, they can easily communicate with their friends and even new people around the world who they have never seen. Now a lot of people have become able to make new friends easily on the websites.
However, there is also another point about the freedom on websites. Some people just do not understand how much effect they could give by posting information on the Internet. For example, if someone writes slander of a classmate on his blog, what would happen if the victim’s classmates look at it? It might lead to a big problem and bullying in the end. Bad words should be removed from the websites from this point of view.
In America, half of the households with teenagers restrict Internet access by using an Internet filter according to IPmedia news. The number of the households that use an Internet filter or a security system is increasing. It is also said that the more people use the Internet, the more they tend to take some measures. Therefore, even if the Internet is not tightly controlled by the police or computer security companies, each household can take actions by themselves like this.
Lastly, there is the problem of hacking. Hacking is an illegal act using or changing the information in another person’s computer system. Those who hack are called hackers. Some evil hackers even try to hack into national computer systems. Frankly speaking, they could do harm to the whole wide world. It is terrible to let hackers on the loose, and they really have to be stopped.
Taking those reasons into consideration, the Internet should be more tightly controlled. The police and other computer security companies need to make more effort to keep order. As long as there are problems on the Internet, they should always be solved.

Works Cited
Longman Dictionary
Wikipedia: http://wikipedia.org/
IPmedia news: http://www.itmedia.co.jp/news/articles/0503/19/news012.html