"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."

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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

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