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Sun, 04 Oct 2009 15:30:27 -0700

It had been a while since I read my rant on censorship, specifically with respect to the Australian blocked sites list. To be clear:

I believe that censorship is wrong because once you allow someone or a small group of people to choose your morality, you will soon find yourself restricted to a far narrower view of life. Having said this, I also believe that there is a time and place for everything, for example: pornography. I believe that so long as all parties are consenting adults, and are participating in any act in which everyone is safe at all times, or can be assured a level of safety consistent with any like (legal) occupation, that they should be allowed to produce and even sell these things.

If you are a parent, it is your responsibility to talk with your kids about any and all things that they may encounter, and it is your responsibility to manage the content that they view within the confines of your own home; simple as that. It should not be the job of a government, or even the job of an artist, to assure that what they produce is within the bounds of your morality: only you can, and only you *should* decide this.

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Wed, 17 Jun 2009 01:53:56 -0700

I've become disgusted with the level of censorship and the talk of new pervasive kinds of censorship regarding the internet. I will state it simply at first: censorship is the dark ages come again. It is the closing of ideas to millions of people via powerful politics and the almighty dollar. I may not agree with everything, or many things, that I read on a day to day basis, ranging from Holocaust revisionism and racism to child pornography and sadism, but at the same time, when one person or a group of people come into the power of controlling what everyone else is allowed to see or hear, you will always have an incredible bias. My attackers will at this point launch into my own ethics as a diversion to the true topic: no, I don't support the aforementioned ideas, but I do believe that it is the right of every man and woman to think what they like, lest we impose thought-crimes and so forth in such an Orwellian fashion. Censorship is a two-edged sword, to protect us and yet sever us from our ability to fully articulate even extreme ideas, and it is the same censorship that brought about the dark ages. Soon we'll be burning books because they speak of the Earth as but a speck in a galaxy of bodies, instead of as the center of the one and only Universe. Net filters are the beginning of such censorship. The Danish net-filter began innocently enough, stopping the flow of child pornographers in Denmark, but within months has expanded to cover political views not seen fit by the Danish government. In Australia, although the filter is not yet mandatory, Wikileaks has been banned for thinking to post a list of banned Danish and Thai websites. Think for a moment as to why a list of banned websites is itself banned. Answer? That list contains items which can prove bias towards a political or economic group. I am still unsure if we will become slaves in the way Orwell imagined or in the way Huxley imagined, but the lack of response to such matters tells me that it will surely be a mixed bag. In the words of the great traitor Winston Churchill, "Those who sacrifice freedom for security deserve neither."

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Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:53:10 -0700

Hey, I'd like to take a minute to welcome you to my little portion of stumbleupon. Hope you enjoy my ever-growing collection

Josh

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Tue, 31 Mar 2009 21:49:41 -0700

I hit a milestone just now, 13k stumbles!