Monitoring Internet Persuasive Essay

With our society being so technology based, it brings up controversial topics as to how much the government should be able to monitor and regulate internet content. We all have own opinions as to how much the government should be able to monitor the internet and it's content. In my opinion, there should be a happy medium. First, I think that the government should be able to monitor internet content. Especially with the obscure content that can be put on the internet. For example, we recently had the Youtuber Logan Paul who was mocking suicide. This obviously upset many people, as it should, and I think that the government should be able to monitor those instances and report them or take them down. We also have the 'Tide Pods Challenge' where

Leading people to try this challenge and believe it is okay is detrimental for our society. Challenges and trends like the Tide Pod Challenge should be monitored and banned from the internet so that people are not drawn to harming themselves. Monitoring trends like the Tide Pod Challenge could also provide the potential for more jobs. Obviously there is a multitude of people who are on the internet, so observing the internet for possibly dangerous challenges and trends could allow for more jobs. There could be a scanning base for high trends on the internet and the person monitoring these trends could look through them and find the potentially dangerous ones and delete them from the internet. This would provide more jobs, and also it would help clear the internet from ignorant and dangerous challenges. I also believe that schools should be able to regulate what their students are searching while they are at school. This is because school is meant to be a learning environment, and also students should not be looking up inappropriate searches during school. For monitoring emails, I think that the federal government should have a search for emails that seem high risk for things like