>Most of the censoring being done on the Internet right now is not >religious based but content based on protecting Children from stuff >they should not have (Because some folks do not want to show or >exercise any restraint) and also to protect our children from being >exploited in a sexual nature.
Since you have ruled out religion. where do you get this prudish notion from? I had to think hard about this after watching Bill Moyers interview Sister Wendy (Wendy Beckett, nun and art historian who created a series of marvellous BBC programs on art). Moyers asked Sister what a nun was doing surrounded by so much nakedness. Sister asked rhetorically "Do you not believe that we are made in the likeness of God?" "So when you object to nakedness I have to ask 'What do you have against God?'." (Or something close to this as best I can recall.) That set me back on my heels. Since the Rev. cited foreign countries I wonder if the Rev. has been to Europe. Naked people in newspaper and magazine ads and on billboards are common. Does he think that children do not see these? Meanwhile the Europeans are quite upset at excessive violence depected in US media. They do not want their children to see this. (Hence my earlier quesion about "Kill Bill" or "The Passion of the Christ" -- which is being evaded.) Bottom line is that there is no agreement about what children and others should or should not be allowed to see. So are you going to pick and choose whose opinion's counts? Are you going to accept all opinions with equal weight (including the Taliban's). Or are you going to tell all of them to get lost because you are not going to censor anthing. Hence we get back to the accusation that "everybody has the freedom to practice MY religion" applies. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
