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Originally Posted by ardeegee
... The person I was replying to thinks it is okay to have wide-ranging mandatory government censorship of the internet as long as it stops a few narrow categories he (or she) doesn't like. So, my reply is-- if that's the government you want, then you deserve to get it.
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But it effects more than one person... and of course we're back to who chooses, and where the line is... and that's the bigger danger.
Just noticed a new link in CNN's latest news... and it's gone up in popularity while I've typed this...
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/11/12...ghting/?hpt=T2
PETA is taking advantage of folks rage and desire to have Amazon censor based on public opinion.... so, today is the acceptable list of topics to demand Amazon to block Pedophile and Dog fighting? Next week it's Pedophile, Dog Fighting and ????
How long does the list get???
If you searched the list of banned sites that Australia had listed, besides errors, they'd listed political sites, sites of "enemies", etc. The slope is long and icy...