The use of censorship by one party to gain power over another is evident throughout history. The development of technology has posed several problems for both sides, making censorship more or less difficult to apply. This is especially prevalent in today's society, where the Internet has ensnared today's younger generations with its social networks and online entertainment industries. Even more damaging to this modernized culture is how this freedom has prevented anyone from efficiently limiting connections to these sites. The place where Internet censorship is most commonly present is in schools, where it raises many issues and questions about the effectiveness of installing filters. Instead of censoring the Internet, we should educate its users and take steps to make it more open. The most common reason used to attack internet censorship in schools is that they often block educational resources. Often, these filters prove to be not only too strict in some areas, blocking necessary educational and educational resources and databases ("School Internet Filters"). A prominent example of this occurred when the Canadian National History Society's magazine The Beaver was blocked by Internet filters (Wagner). First, this example of “authoritarian” Internet censorship is absurd. Instead of nimbly modifying its filters to allow the site to pass through, a magazine founded in 1920 (Wagner) was reluctantly renamed with a seemingly “less offensive” name, as if it were possibly offensive or inappropriate in the first place. An example of a common scene in many classrooms is when a Minnesota school teacher, Doug Johnson, attempted to show a Wikipedia page to his class, but was stopped by his school's Internet filter (W..... . half of the paper… …not being knowledgeable about alternatives to content filtering. In other words, to teach one generation, you must first educate another. August, Oliver China's misleading and unnecessary control of 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." Viewers' Blog, July 3, 2012. Web November 22, 2013. "School Internet Filters Hurt Schools." Computerworld. Computerworld, 26 March 2010. Web. November 22, 2013. Wiseman, Paul and Calum MacLeod. “Breaking the 'Great Firewall' of China's Web Censorship.” ABC News. ABC News Network, Web. Nov. 22. 2013.