Censorship has reared its ugly head again, the Australian Government's proposed internet filter that was to stop child porn and pedophilia has now spread to blocking Euthanasia websites. This is the problem with censorship, it starts out with laudable aims and ends up a political tool.
Australian censors back in the late 50's edited 'the carpetbaggers' novel replacing 'fuck' with 'screw' and later in the novel 'screw' with 'have'. They edited 'he fondled her soft brown nipple' to 'he fondled her soft brown ', is that an improvement?
As horrid as child porn is, censorship is a slippery slope to madness, it didn't achieve anything in the 50's and 60's, it won't achieve anything today. We don't want to be like China with political masters dictating how we should think.
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