In my last post i mentioned that the recent attempts at internet censorship have as their justification the stated goal of combating terrorism, piracy, child pornography, or hate speech. I would like to make it perfectly clear that while i and all decent people everywhere rightly abhorr such things, i don’t believe that restricting the medium of their expression is either practicle or desirable.
Only a fool thinks that viewing a website makes someone into a terrorist, or that erradicating naked pictures of children will eliminate child sexual abuse.
These are merely online expressions of real-world actions and attitudes, and that is where they must be dealt with.
Censoring or otherwise shutting down these expressions serves only to drive them deeper underground, where they fester and eventually emerge in more virulent forms.
Of course, despite their protestrations to the contrary, governments know this just as well as i do, which is why no one should for a moment believe that all this is anything other than an absurdly transparent sham, a devious ploy to exercise further control over the lives of free human beings.
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