Net filters face free-speech test

[bonkers325]

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The San Francisco Public Library, a large gray edifice that stands across from the city?s sparkling City Hall, hardly seems like ground zero for a constitutional war over Web content.

its about time the free speech thing is taken care of for the web

 

[yakko]

So why are you reading MSNBC now instead of ZDNet?

 

[classy]

I agree with the Goverment. The internet needs to be filtered. Its a shame its not filtered automatically even running into your home. Trash is not needed even though its your choice. But where it can be filtered as in public librarys it should be. If people want to look at the garbage on the net, go home and do it the privacy of your own home. But no child should have to walk into a libarary and see some moron sitting there looking at porn over the internet. Free speech is so abused its pathtic. Its time that the free speech be replaced with right and wrong. Just because you have the right to say something or view content over the net doesn't make it right. And another thing. Allowing a child to leave his home where he might not be allowed to go to the local library and view porn and god knows what else over the net would contribute to corrupting the morals of a child. There are plenty of places for adults to go to get their freak on. They don't need to have the local librarys added to the list. Please you'll have all kinds of weirdos hanging around a place that is suppose to be there to help educate our children not corrupt them.

 

[Russ]

I just read through Classy's entire post and couldn't find a damned thing to disagree with. Have we entered an alternate universe?

Russ, NCNE

 

[Double Trouble]

<<Its a shame its not filtered automatically even running into your home. Trash is not needed even though its your choice.>>

What you consider 'trash' others may consider something valuable. Censorship is a very bad and very dangerous thing. Once you start down that path, the government is gonna have it's hands all over 'net content in no time. No thanks.

Also, the filtering software will filter out things that are perfectly legitimate. We may not like them all, but the government (or some company making the filtering software) should not be in charge of making the call as to what is legit and what is not. For example, the filtering software will filter out sites with information on things such as AIDS, or perhaps some site on some subject the filtering company simply doesn't like. The actual filters are not public, who's to say what's being filtered out??

No thanks, it's a big can o'worms we don't need to be opening. I can think of a lot worse things happening to a kid than to .... oh my goodness.... see someone naked! 😉

 

[BoberFett]

classy

If the net was filtered for trash, I'd never have had the oppurtunity to read your wonderful posts.



LOL, sorry, I couldn't resist. 😉

 

[ElFenix]

tagej is right on. filters are technologically unworkable, they filter out legit information sites. if we're going to filter out pr0n and smut on the net we'll have to do it in the libraries' stracks as well. no more complete works of william shakespeare.

 

[Shantanu]

Putting up porn filters at schools and libraries is a good idea, otherwise they would be occupied by perverts 24/7. I don't see why there needs to be a federal mandate on this though.

 

[classy]

<< I just read through Classy's entire post and couldn't find a damned thing to disagree with. Have we entered an alternate universe?

Russ, NCNE >>



ROFL! Yea, I shocked you, didn't I? LOL 😀

THIS IS THE TWILIGHT ZONE!

 

[ElFenix]

shantanu - the porn filters usually filter out valid sites about health issues like breast cancer. heck, they might filter out KFC for having &quot;chicken breast&quot;