[governance] The dawning of Internet censorship in Germany

[Joe Baptista]

Filters and children equals Bullshit.

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 5:56 PM, Sylvia Caras <sylvia.caras at gmail.com>wrote:

> I send an alert about this to a colleague of mine who does human
> rights advocacy in Germany.  Her reply very strongly supports the
> filter, that protecting children from abuse trumps any other
> interests.


Filters don't protect children from abuse.  Thats a nonsense argument.  If
you want to protect children - legislate them off the Internet.

I personally think no child should have access to the Internet until they
are 18 and older.  If they have to be 18 or older to see a dirty movie in a
theater then the same should apply to the Internet - the biggest access
point on the planet for fine filth and quality porn.

This whole child porn thing is eventually going to blow up in our faces.
People who make pornos about children are on the decline.  However children
making child porn is well on the rise.  And the demand by children for child
porn is on the rise due to the ease of distribution the Internet makes
available to them.



> I was surprised in Athens at how strong the 'save the children'
> presence was.  I felt like one issue, information freedom, had been
> co-opted by another, protection and that the field was not at all
> level.



Your absolutely right.  I say save the children once and for all.  No need
for filters - which have little to do with protecting children and
everything to do with protecting government interests.  Just pass a few laws
to keep the little whipper snappers off the net and you solve the problem
once an for all time.

regards
joe baptista

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