Pro/Forums - Internet and Censorship

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Originally Posted by Cathar

Well the one reason that I think I did manage to make out amongst the crawling hypocrisy, was that many were deathly afraid that accepting any form of censorship, no matter the reasons.

Don't you think "crawling hypocrisy" is a little strong for folks that don't want internet censorship? If you give over the decision of what is and what is not to be censored to an "authority" how is it not a slippery slope?
IMHO the "best" solution is for there to be lots of IRCA type lists/categorizations - and individuals can pick out the ones that best fits what they want and don't want to see for both themselves and for their family
Don't think your kids should get poisoned by exposure to evolution or the possibility they might consider the world to be any older than expressed in the Bible - filter through biblebelt.com or godsrevelations.com or whatever. Live in china and want to be sure your kids aren't poisoned by thoughts of democracy, filter through redchinaisbest.com, or maybe taiwanisreallypartoftheprc.com.
Of semi-related interest, Ted Nelson seems to have foreseen this problem in his 70's era design/proposal of a "hyperverse" - the idea of "subscribing" to sets of information lists, links, and filters is his, not mine...