An excellent op-ed piece from the bright and brilliant futurist Mark Pesce on the ABC site highlights the dangers of censorship and the futility of filtering. http://www.abc.net.au/unleashed/stories/s2447465.htm
If a pornographic cartoon with The Simpsons cartoon characters in it is deemed child porn and passing on a link to a publicly available video of a baby being energetically swung in a swing is illegal distribution of materials depicting child abuse, it’s time to step back and exhale.
We really need to think about what level of censorship we want as a free-thinking society and we need to communicate that to our representatives in government and in the judicial system. And we need to think about that censorship in terms of the free flow of information over the internet. If passing on a link to a publicly available file is a crime, it does not bode well for our future.
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