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British Telecom Blocks Access to Child Porn Sites
An anonymous reader writes "British Telecom has taken the unprecedented step of blocking all illegal child pornography websites in a crackdown on abuse online. The decision by Britain's largest high-speed internet provider will lead to the first mass censorship of the web attempted in a Western democracy."
Tell me why this is bad by defending child pornography and leave the cries of censorship out of it. There are worse things than censorship.
I am fine with bocking child porn but what next? Will the block anti gov speach?
A ruler wears a crown while the rest of us wear hats. But which would you rather have when it's raining?
Of course, once we identify what MLK actually did besides screw around on his wife a lot, (to truly Clintonesque proportions, mind you) - you can get back to me.
Politicians give speeches every day and we don't have national holidays for them.
Both JFK and Bobby got shot, and neither of them got holidays.
HBI's Law: Frequency of calling others Nazis is directly correlated with the likelihood of the accuser being Communist.
Actully, the people that founded the United States didn't seek freedom of any kind, they were just sick of being taxed, and after they won independence they still kept slavery and sexist views. The Constitution is a good piece of literature, but it's only that, a piece of literature. When people make a piece of writing that's supposed to last through the years it has to look good and noble, and the people that wrote it are supposed to be view as benevolent, selfless people.
If you plan on making a society that exists for sole freedom of others, make sure you view both sides of the fence, any discontinuty with your ideals and it'll all come crashing down.
Learn something new.
Condoning evil is also a slippery slope.