Should pro-ana sites be definitely illegal?
By diamania
@diamania (7011)
Netherlands
August 11, 2009 1:03pm CST
On pro-ana sites anorectic girls are stimulated to lose even more weight and glorify anorexia. I believe these sites should be banned because those girls are already balancing on the verge of death and those sites do not stimulate them to seek help, in the contrary, they are indirectly encouraged to slim themselves into death.
What do you think? Should pro-ana sites be banned or are the girls strong enough to understand that they need to look for help?
1 response
@pushkin69 (546)
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11 Aug 09
This is a tricky one. I am all for freedom of speech and the internet is an arena where we can, to some extent, have the rights to express our views. This is not always the case and we can use China as a prime example. A friend of mine recently went to China and she was banned from using Facebook. With regards to the pro anorexic sites I do think that they should be banned as children are incredibly receptive to being indoctrinated. This goes for any sites that incite harm or hatred to themselves or others.
