Following the September 11th attack, where the Al-Queda acquired bombmaking and terrorist knowledge over the internet, many lawmakers have proposed that an international body regulate the internet so that sites which provide information to terrorists could be eliminated.
Discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the opinion stated above. Support your views with reasons and/or examples from your own experience, observations or reading.
Julius Caesar once said, "Men are not disturbed by things but the view that they take of things." The September 11th attack proved to the world that even great nations are not invincible. The lesson that we should learn from such cataclysmic events is that we should not be bridled by nugatory facts, but rather we should task ourselves with concocting a solution that can tackle the issue at the grass root level. Hence, while monitoring the internet for identifying suspected terrorist activities might prove beneficial occasionally, establishing an international body to regulate and control the internet is equivalent to placing curbs on freedom of expression and is only a trivial and partial solution to the conundrum of terrorism.
In an age when the issue of internet freedom is passionately debated, any move to curb and check the activity of internet users over all the websites is an encroachment into the user's privacy. In the digital age, people are more and more worried about their privacy. For example, most of the financial transactions are online- be it banking transactions, purchasing movie tickets, booking flights and hotel and so on. By having an all-powerful international body that is allowed to regulate the internet, such a move is in effect letting the body play the role of a big brother. It will compromise the privacy and trust that people place on different websites. Further, there are several people who use the same password for multiple websites. By having an international body that can potentially access these passwords, the entire validity of private transactions come into doubt. The cases of Government spying on the citizens in countries like China comes to the mind. The citizens of such countries are never at ease while using the internet, resulting in the reduction of the overall happiness index. This situation is analogous to having a CCTV camera monitoring your move, each and every day.
However, while creating an all-powerful international body to regulate the internet is an over-the-top solution to one tackle one aspect of terrorism, it is also not advised that there be a complete lax of vigilance on internet activities. There are numerous examples of how government investigation agencies have cracked down cases of child abuse and forced prostitution by monitoring such websites those showed unusual or furtive web-activity. Thus, to an extent, a minimal check on the nature of each website must be established.
The help of expert programmers can be sought to detect unusual website traffic or internet activity. It won't be a Himalayan task to figure out if some unsuitable content is being asked of or being searched on the internet from a particular IP address. And once, such an activity is detected, that particular IP address should come under surveillance and be tracked.
In conclusion, though it is imperative that there must be no curbs on freedom of internet usage by the establishment of regulatory bodies, it is also a must that one must use the internet resources judiciously and responsibly, or risk being penalized by the laws of the land.
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 179, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[2]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'users'' or 'user's'?
Suggestion: users'; user's
...he websites is an encroachment into the users privacy. In the digital age, people are...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, hence, however, if, so, thus, while, for example, in conclusion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 32.0 19.5258426966 164% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 12.4196629213 105% => OK
Conjunction : 19.0 14.8657303371 128% => OK
Relative clauses : 14.0 11.3162921348 124% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 33.0505617978 85% => OK
Preposition: 69.0 58.6224719101 118% => OK
Nominalization: 13.0 12.9106741573 101% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2620.0 2235.4752809 117% => OK
No of words: 511.0 442.535393258 115% => OK
Chars per words: 5.12720156556 5.05705443957 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.75450408675 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.9624664047 2.79657885939 106% => OK
Unique words: 266.0 215.323595506 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.520547945205 0.4932671777 106% => OK
syllable_count: 850.5 704.065955056 121% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 7.0 4.99550561798 140% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 69.3471520684 60.3974514979 115% => OK
Chars per sentence: 131.0 118.986275619 110% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.55 23.4991977007 109% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.7 5.21951772744 71% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 8.0 10.2758426966 78% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.211241710374 0.243740707755 87% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0580559923906 0.0831039109588 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0627899328639 0.0758088955206 83% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.110557513212 0.150359130593 74% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0439146160029 0.0667264976115 66% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.5 14.1392134831 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.64 48.8420337079 77% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.1743820225 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.77 12.1639044944 105% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.08 8.38706741573 108% => OK
difficult_words: 136.0 100.480337079 135% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 20.5 11.8971910112 172% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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Note: the e-grader does NOT examine the meaning of words and ideas. VIP users will receive further evaluations by advanced module of e-grader and human graders.