Censorship

This is an excellent commentary by Patricia Nell Warren regarding the National Academy of Science’s Workshop on Non-Technical Strategies to Protect Youth from Inappropriate Material on the Internet, [pointy-headspeak for Internet Porn Blocking]. It’s important to note that Ms. Warren is almost 65 years old, and has impressive credentials in both law and education. A good comment:

“It amazes me to see parents who support “family values” demanding government censorship on the Net. In other words, their family values have failed, and they can’t control their children, so they expect the government to control the situation for them.”

All I care about is that the United States Federal Government does not receive the right to censor the Internet. That’s all. If you want your state, your town, or your community to have censorship rights, fine. If you want to pay money to an ISP that will filter content for you, that’s fine too. However, I will never condone any governmental legislature that seeks to censor speech (and thus thought). If the thoughts you deem “healthy” and “moral” are so weak and unconvincing that the argurments for them cannot outweigh those for the concepts and ideas you deem “wrong” and “evil”, your thoughts and ideas deserve to die.