Re: More police sticking nose in...

On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 15:06:21 +0100, "Uno-Hoo!"
<Uno-Hoo@NOSPAMbigfootdotcom> wrote:

i do not accept that there are things that are "clearly unsuitable for
public viewing".

Who gets to decide what is suitable for me to see? The Taliban?

So where would you draw the line Cynic? Should we have real life rape
videos on YouTube. Scenes of torture and mutilation?

I would not presume to draw *any* lines for other people about any
activity that they wish to indulge in that has no significant chance
of harming anyone else. As far as I am concerned, you should be free
to watch or decline to watch any of those things if that's what you
want to do, and I should be free to decide what I do and do not want
to watch.

Images of all of the things you mention are indeed available on the
Internet, Kev - and what's more they are all legal to download and
watch. I'm pretty sure that I have very realistic depictions of all
of them on my HDD right now - but if not they are for sale at my local
Asda and available for rent from my local Blockbusters.

And we both have a duty to control as far as possible what our
children (and any other young person under our care from time to time)
has access to until they are mature enough to make sensible decisions
for themselves.

But it is *not* the job of the government to make those decisions on
my behalf. I once watched a beheading video out of curiosity, and
very much wish that I had not - but that was *my* mistake, and I would
certainly not have wanted someone else controlling what I may see,
"for my own good," even if they are, very occasionally, correct.

It is easy enough for you to set up a firewall in your household
router, or in any individual computer to block however many sites you
want to block. Or disconnect the Internet altogether. You have a
perfect right to do that - but don't presume to force *your* opinions
and tastes down *my* throat and demand that I may have no access
either.

And don't ask a commercial company to make decisions and choices that
you should be old enough and ugly enough to be making for yourself.
Just try to find the willpower to stop looking at things that you find
distasteful.

--
Cynic

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