North Korea has extreme censorship on their media leaving their country unaware of the mishaps going on in the rest of the world. They have been creating bans on the Internet, websites and even foreign media. It seems absolutely ridiculous that North Korea can even think of doing this when other countries would not dare try because of the many different aspects of human rights it affects. There have been little hints being thrown at North Korea about the revolt that the people of Libya and Egypt have done to overthrow their nation’s leaders.
As crazy as this sounds, Internet, media and other bans are not human rights friendly, but have you ever considered that sometimes things on the internet are being banned to protect people. The best example I have of this would be Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs. The Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs were 19 years old at the time they committed their crimes. They started off with smaller crimes such as animal abuse. One of the boys claimed it was an attempt to get rid of his fear of animals. This smaller abuse quickly escalated to brutal murders of “weaker” citizens such as pregnant women, drunken men and seniors. The brutal killings were done with items such hammers and damaged their victims to until they were barely recognizably. A source close to the boys also said that a foreign film company offered them millions of dollars to create 40 videos of their murders. All of these videos and pictures were found the boys’ computer that includes pictures of them at their victim’s grave. Just like all inappropriate videos, a video of the brutal murder of a senior man was leaked on to the Internet named “Three Guys, One Hammer”, cleverly named after a pornographic video to attract attention. I for one think that the video being on the Internet available for everyone to see if quite disgusting. Whoever leaked the video, whoever chose to keep it on their website, and whoever enjoys watching it has to be sick in the head, literally. It’s things like this that the government should have control over the Internet, at least a little bit. The wrong people could see these videos such as children who may be scarred for life. After simply hearing about these videos I was shocked and unable to feel safe in general.
This maybe doesn’t apply directly to North Korea because North Korea puts bans on everything, but it could potentially apply to other things within the Canadian culture. I know most people will say we’ve given up so many rights already and this would be another right. I’m not saying give up all our Internet rights but we should be able to give up just enough so that citizens are protected, especially those who have to witness their grandfather, husband, or farther being brutally murdered by three wealthy teenage boys. It’s also unfair that these murder videos are floating around on the Internet easily available for their loved ones to see. I’d be willing to give up my personal Internet rights so that people don’t have to witness the brutal murder of their loved one.
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| Posing with the cat they murdered |
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| Dnepropetrovsk Maniacs in Court |
