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Originally Posted by Sil_liS
They tell the young people that they can't view something because it's bad for them and SOPA was supposed to make sites unavailable because they are bad for everyone. The government is trying to protect kids from violence that they can't handle, and everyone from sources of illegal content.
I'm going to take this as a joke because you can't possibly be serious. Starting the sentence with "I think that the internet is", and quoting a part of the letter that talks about the internet should have made it clear that in "the author of the letter sees it as a tool" <it> was referring to the internet.
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I was just pointing out that your sentence was poorly structured. A pronoun refers back to the noun that most closely precedes it. In your sentence the noun letter was closer to 'it' than was the noun internet. I believe I pointed out that you might have meant he saw the internet as a tool, but maybe I didn't. So, yes, I was serious in not being completely positive what you meant.
I see a big difference in rules for kids and rules for adults. I don't want young children driving cars, buying beer or cigarettes, or watching porn. I don't want some adults doing some of the above things, but those are their stupid choices (it isn't all adults or all choices, I won't say which choices) Those are just a few examples. If I am reading you correctly you are equating any rules for kids to be bad. Yes, parents should be the main authority, but not all parents accept responsibility and let their kids do as they please. Heck, we have parents of some of our high schoolers (or younger) having their kids do the drug buying for them (or selling).
Is there a way to restrict underage access to certain content that doesn't block adults? Yes. Could it be better? I'm sure yes.
I think some restriction of knowledge isn't necessarily a bad thing, I am with others that don't want it so easy to find bomb plans or maybe chemical weapon plans. I do not know how accessible these things are because I do not want that knowledge. But overall saying 'this is what you can know' and 'this is what you can read/watch' is censorship.