well, i heard about this fishing village that saved itself because of some wisdom passed down through the generations. i don't know if the wisdom was 3000 years old though. anyway, they said that when the tide goes out too fast, then it will come back with equal force. so these village people (tee hee) hightail it to some temples in the mountains before the tsunami and live happily ever after. the article was on yahoo, read by my husband a few days ago. i can't find it now or woulda linked. sorry.
as a canuck, i feel obligated to point out that there are plenty of stations that carry diesel around here. though i do live in the maritimes - not ontario. its a whole different country out there. AND i guess i'm not an american looking for a new car . ..so maybe i should just butt out. (BTW, a canuck is a canadian)
i think that many people here are dancing around the heart of the issue.
ok, the problem is that we have two moral decisions which are apparently clashing.
1. child pr0n is WRONG 2. censorship is WRONG
normally these two ideas can float around in a person's head w/o them noticing that these morals may conflict with one another. as in the case of freenet. freenet is all about privacy and no censorship. that has apparently allowed much child pr0n to be distributed through its systems easily.
the internet itself has much child pr0n, or hate literature, etc. these things offend people. but, they still use the internet. that is because they are not taking any part in the seedier side of the internet.
HOWEVER, freenet does not allow you to choose what sort of data that will be stored/distributed by your computer.
let's put this into 3D. i believe in free speech. i know that neo-nazis can hand out literature, try to persuade people of their opinions, even gather peacefully. i can be morally outraged at what they are saying. i also have the right, by free speech, to speak as loudly as i wish against neo-nazis. HOWEVER (and this is the big point here) i cannot be forced to participate in the dissemination of such untruthful and disgusting material as neo-nazi literature.
this logic doesn't work: i do not distribute hate literature, therefore i believe in censorship.
censorship is about a governing/hierarchical body deciding what can be viewed by the general public. censorship is NOT about the personal liberty each individual has to choose what they are involved in.
in fact, what freenet has essentially done is become a dictatorial government that "for the sake of privacy" has forced its subjects (regular users of freenet) to distribute morally outrageous data.
i can just picture my local elected official coming to my house with a stack of child pr0n and saying, "our country does not believe in censorship - now go pass this child pr0n to people. if you refuse, then you are an evil believer in censorship!"
what we really need to worry about is all the telephone, power, internet, etc. companies serving up all your credit information to huge call centers filled with incompetent people over internet explorer. as my trainer says, "you'll have to open another E to get to that program." "that program" is the one we use to view and change account information.
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well, i heard about this fishing village that saved itself because of some wisdom passed down through the generations. i don't know if the wisdom was 3000 years old though. anyway, they said that when the tide goes out too fast, then it will come back with equal force. so these village people (tee hee) hightail it to some temples in the mountains before the tsunami and live happily ever after. the article was on yahoo, read by my husband a few days ago. i can't find it now or woulda linked. sorry.
as a canuck, i feel obligated to point out that there are plenty of stations that carry diesel around here. though i do live in the maritimes - not ontario. its a whole different country out there. AND i guess i'm not an american looking for a new car . . .so maybe i should just butt out. (BTW, a canuck is a canadian)
i think that many people here are dancing around the heart of the issue.
ok, the problem is that we have two moral decisions which are apparently clashing.
1. child pr0n is WRONG
2. censorship is WRONG
normally these two ideas can float around in a person's head w/o them noticing that these morals may conflict with one another. as in the case of freenet. freenet is all about privacy and no censorship. that has apparently allowed much child pr0n to be distributed through its systems easily.
the internet itself has much child pr0n, or hate literature, etc. these things offend people. but, they still use the internet. that is because they are not taking any part in the seedier side of the internet.
HOWEVER, freenet does not allow you to choose what sort of data that will be stored/distributed by your computer.
let's put this into 3D. i believe in free speech. i know that neo-nazis can hand out literature, try to persuade people of their opinions, even gather peacefully. i can be morally outraged at what they are saying. i also have the right, by free speech, to speak as loudly as i wish against neo-nazis.
HOWEVER (and this is the big point here) i cannot be forced to participate in the dissemination of such untruthful and disgusting material as neo-nazi literature.
this logic doesn't work:
i do not distribute hate literature, therefore i believe in censorship.
censorship is about a governing/hierarchical body deciding what can be viewed by the general public. censorship is NOT about the personal liberty each individual has to choose what they are involved in.
in fact, what freenet has essentially done is become a dictatorial government that "for the sake of privacy" has forced its subjects (regular users of freenet) to distribute morally outrageous data.
i can just picture my local elected official coming to my house with a stack of child pr0n and saying, "our country does not believe in censorship - now go pass this child pr0n to people. if you refuse, then you are an evil believer in censorship!"
alright, that's my two cents. enjoy.
what we really need to worry about is all the telephone, power, internet, etc. companies serving up all your credit information to huge call centers filled with incompetent people over internet explorer. as my trainer says, "you'll have to open another E to get to that program." "that program" is the one we use to view and change account information.
it is scary, yes?
it is savvy, no.