 | Last login: 5 hours agoJosh is a 21 year old guy in a relationship from Montreal, Quebec, Canada. I am an anglophone living in Montreal in my 3rd year at McGill in Comp Sci. |
- Jun 17, 1:53am
- I've become disgusted with the level of censorship and the talk of new pervasive kinds of censorship regarding the internet. I will state it simply at first: censorship is the dark ages come again. It is the closing of ideas to millions of people via powerful politics and the almighty dollar. I may not agree with everything, or many things, that I read on a day to day basis, ranging from Holocaust revisionism and racism to child pornography and sadism, but at the same time, when one person or a group of people come into the power of controlling what everyone else is allowed to see or hear, you will always have an incredible bias. My attackers will at this point launch into my own ethics as a diversion to the true topic: no, I don't support the aforementioned ideas, but I do believe that it is the right of every man and woman to think what they like, lest we impose thought-crimes and so forth in such an Orwellian fashion. Censorship is a two-edged sword, to protect us and yet sever us from our ability to fully articulate even extreme ideas, and it is the same censorship that brought about the dark ages. Soon we'll be burning books because they speak of the Earth as but a speck in a galaxy of bodies, instead of as the center of the one and only Universe. Net filters are the beginning of such censorship. The Danish net-filter began innocently enough, stopping the flow of child pornographers in Denmark, but within months has expanded to cover political views not seen fit by the Danish government. In Australia, although the filter is not yet mandatory, Wikileaks has been banned for thinking to post a list of banned Danish and Thai websites. Think for a moment as to why a list of banned websites is itself banned. Answer? That list contains items which can prove bias towards a political or economic group. I am still unsure if we will become slaves in the way Orwell imagined or in the way Huxley imagined, but the lack of response to such matters tells me that it will surely be a mixed bag. In the words of the great traitor Winston Churchill, "Those who sacrifice freedom for security deserve neither."
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