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Censorship - Won’t someone think of the adults?

39 pointsby mhwover 14 years ago

4 comments

madmazeover 14 years ago
Censorship of the internet, any at all, is a problem. As soon as we are filtering in any way shape or form, it will not stop.<p>The Internet is what it is, open/free/uncensored, and it is no-ones responsibility to censor what is said or shown. If someone would like to "protect" themselves from freedom of speech and freedom of press then it is their own responsibility and no one elses.
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num1over 14 years ago
I've always wondered how we have created the system within which we find ourselves. It is possible for someone to write this well about an argument and obviously be in the right. But somehow, their argument will either be completely ignored or rebutted with a comment that doesn't properly argue the article. The injust law will then be passed regardless.<p>I'm talking in generalizations and not about this issue specifically. However it is a recurring theme that some invasive law will be proposed, and reasonable people reasonably argue why it shouldn't pass, and it passes anyway. How have we allowed this to happen?
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semanticistover 14 years ago
Except it's not 'The Government' proposing to 'pressure' ISPs, it's one lone back-bench MP.
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Swizecover 14 years ago
What about the good old "The internet sees censorship as damage and routes around it" rule?<p>Why can't we just continue routing around censorship like we have for the past 20 years?
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