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I am making a point about the levels which they go to. I would happily let our government block content like that.

There should be more policing on the internet as a whole, I just don't agree with how far they go.

When they banned Google search months ago, that was because of political agenda over user censorship.




I still don't think you're getting what I'm saying. Where do you draw the line? I don't like images of extreme gore any more than child pornography. Should we let governments censor it too? How would we accomplish that anyway?


Well I think there are some obvious assumptions you can make. Child pornography being one of them.

I do understand what you mean, I just think there can be clear cut boundaries you can draw.

It's also not a matter of preference but a matter of what is right and wrong?


> It's also not a matter of preference but a matter of what is right and wrong?

Who defines right and wrong?

Is it right or wrong to look for abortion clinics? What about just doing research on abortion? How about stem cells? Should I be able to use bit torrent? After all, I can torrent Ubuntu releases, or copies of mp3's, or child pornography - and there's no way to tell the difference.

Is it wrong to look up information that makes your government look bad? How about someone else's government?


what is right and what is wrong is different for different people




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