"I think that if people want certain information, then they should be able to get it, and if they don't want certain information, then it shouldn't be imposed on them."
------ It's been thirty years, but I remember it like it was yesterday. It was actually quite ironic... the very developers of the tool that would finally put an end to all censorship having a debate over how to best censor themselves. Of course it began with good intentions, and at the time no one really saw it as true censorship. It was more a effort put certain, shall we say, restrictions on what we presented to people. The project would stand a greater chance of popular acceptance that way, and of course we all wanted the project to be a success What we failed to realize at the time was that we _were_ the masses. And what we were hiding was ourselves. In the interest of being accepted by others, we agreed to conceal ourselves behind masked keys and nested hierarchies. But we missed the danger. We didn't see the slippery slope. We started by concealing sexually explicit images. Then we catered to those who wanted to conceal sexually explicit text. And then racist
