When something like this can happen with todays technology; when something made in one country can span out to 75 other countries, I wonder what type of laws and restrictions, if any, there are for illicit material on the web. The easy accessibility of internet sites has helped communication, knowledge, understanding, and much more in recent years. Yet, it has also made child pornography all the more easier to exist.
This relates to the discussions and study of ideologies that we have had in class recently. During last semester, while studying and living in Spain, I learned a lot about the contemporary social issues being faced as a country. The media has a large say in how news is presented to their viewers. Spain's censorship is very loose in comparison to the United States'. I remember seeing graphic photos of a little Gitano (gypsie) girl who had been kidnapped and murdered. It surprised me that one of the articles presenting this story today noted that the child footage was too graphic to be aired on the news. This seems unlike the censorship I experienced while in Spain. An ideology I had about Spain nearly censoring everything was challenged and changed after reading the articles. Also, the idea of holding children at a different, perhaps higher, level than women or minorities in general seemed apparent here. The gitano, Mari Luz, that go a lot of press while kidnapped, was said to have been taken by other gitanos for revenge on her family. Even thought this wasn't proven, it makes me think that since Mari Luz was a minority, she may not have been censored as much as she could have, perhaps by those who don't have favorable views of Gitanos in general. Would they have not shown her dead, decomposing body if she was born by Spaniards, and not viewed as a second class citizen?
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