On Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 10:55:19AM -0700, Ian Clarke wrote:
>
> Neither is censorship! Censorship is when you prevent people from
> obtaining information that they might want to obtain, not when you help
> them filter out stuff they are not interested in. Do you consider your
> spam filter to be censorship?
Of course I don't consider my personal spam filter censorship,
at least not in any negative sense. On the other hand, if the
filter was applied by my ISP without my knowledge, I'm not
sure I would feel the same, even if they did have a "switch"
that allowed me to turn it off.
Perhaps I simply read too much into what was written. But why
did you choose to single out pornography, and make it seem
like the default should have it be turned off? As someone else
suggested, a less controversial proposal would be to implement
boolean searching.
Something just rubs me wrong about have a pornography-specific
filter applied by default. Why not a racist-specific filter
with a pro-racism switch? Or a "Lord of the Flies" filter with
a pro-"Lord of the Flies" switch?
Actually these are bad examples. There probably aren't a
lot of people on Freenet hunting down racist material, and
"Lord of the Flies" is better read sitting on the couch.
Those filters could probably be turned on by default without
anyone even noticing. In contrast, having to click that
"give-me-porn" switch all the time would probably annoy
just about everyone :-)
m.
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