The use of censorship by one side to gain power over another is evident throughout history. The development of technology has posed several problems for both parties, making censorship more or less difficult to enforce. This is especially prevalent in today's society, where the Internet has ensnared today's younger generations with its social media and online entertainment industries. Even more damaging to this modernized culture is how this freedom has prevented anyone from effectively limiting connections to these sites. The place where Internet censorship is most often present is in schools, where it raises many problems and questions about the effectiveness of installing filters. Rather than censoring the Internet, we should educate its users and take steps to make it more open. The most common reason given for attacking Internet censorship in schools is that they often block educational resources. Often, these filters not only prove to be too strict in certain areas by blocking necessary educational and educational resources and databases (“School Internet Filters”). A major example of this phenomenon is when the National Historical Society of Canada's magazine, The Beaver, was blocked by Internet filters (Wagner). First, this example of “authoritarian” Internet censorship is absurd. Rather than nimbly changing their filters to let the site through, a magazine founded in 1920 (Wagner) was reluctantly renamed to a supposedly "less offensive" name, as if perhaps it was offensive or inappropriate in the first place place. An example of a common scene in many classrooms is when a Minnesota teacher, Doug Johnson, attempted to show a Wikipedia page to his class, but was stopped by his school's Internet filter (W... .. middle of paper... ...not be informed about alternatives to content filtering In other words, to teach one generation, you must first educate another Works Cited August, Oliver. “The Great Firewall: China's misguided – and futile – attempt to control what happens online." Wired.com. Conde Nast Digital, October 23, 2007. Web. November 22, 2013. Johnson, Doug. " Doug Johnson." Website. Doug Johnson, June 28, 2007. Web. November 22, 2013. Lazanski, Dominique "An Internet Filter Would Be Counterproductive." Spectator Blogs, July 3, 2012. Web November 22, 2013. "School Internet Filters. "Debatewise, Web December 22, 2013. Internet censorship harms schools." Computerworld Computerworld, March 26, 2010. Web. November 22, 2013. Wiseman, Paul and Calum MacLeod. "Breaking China's 'Great Firewall' of Web Censorship." ABC News. ABC News Network, Web. November 22. 2013.