The optimust's perspective on the world:
carpenters build things, soldiers kill things - both with the true, honest, heartfelt intent of making the world a better place.
Whether to be a builder or destroyer of any given cause is determined largely by personal nature (desire:what we want to be) and math (cost of repairing undesirable effects is greater/less than the cost of destroying the cause of the undesirable effects).
As I see it folks clamering for censorship laws are in the destroyer camp largely because
1) that's their desire - they choose to spend their efforts taking freedoms from others
or
2) that's where they think they can be most effective - the effort to build a whitelist (opt in, approved content) URL filtering database is greater than the cost to build a blacklist (force all, banned content) AND pass a law requiring its use.
I wish we had more builders working on this issue.
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The optimust's perspective on the world:
carpenters build things, soldiers kill things - both with the true, honest, heartfelt intent of making the world a better place.
Whether to be a builder or destroyer of any given cause is determined largely by personal nature (desire:what we want to be) and math (cost of repairing undesirable effects is greater/less than the cost of destroying the cause of the undesirable effects).
As I see it folks clamering for censorship laws are in the destroyer camp largely because
1) that's their desire - they choose to spend their efforts taking freedoms from others
or
2) that's where they think they can be most effective - the effort to build a whitelist (opt in, approved content) URL filtering database is greater than the cost to build a blacklist (force all, banned content) AND pass a law requiring its use.
I wish we had more builders working on this issue.