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David M · 10-29-2005, 11:10 PM

I have to disagree Ryan,

The Web is the free flow of information whether it is good information, bad information, malicious, criminal or incorrect information. Placing a filter on information is fine for parents to do to children because parents have the childs best interests at heart. But for adults to ask someone or some entity to place a filter on the information which comes to us, then we must ask if this entity which controls the filter ultimatly has our best interests at heart? Power ultimatly corrupts and it would be dangerous to ask any entity to control what information we are allowed view and what information is forbidden.

To place so much power in the the hands of so few is not a good idea.

In human history, only the tyrants tried to control the information..and all of them ultimately failed. Today's China is a perfect example. Chinas control of the Web is failing right now.

The Web is pretty much the Wild Wild West...and it should not be sanitized according to someone elses standards.

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David M Techphile. Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: San Francisco Bay Posts: 5,951	I have to disagree Ryan, The Web is the free flow of information whether it is good information, bad information, malicious, criminal or incorrect information. Placing a filter on information is fine for parents to do to children because parents have the childs best interests at heart. But for adults to ask someone or some entity to place a filter on the information which comes to us, then we must ask if this entity which controls the filter ultimatly has our best interests at heart? Power ultimatly corrupts and it would be dangerous to ask any entity to control what information we are allowed view and what information is forbidden. To place so much power in the the hands of so few is not a good idea. In human history, only the tyrants tried to control the information..and all of them ultimately failed. Today's China is a perfect example. Chinas control of the Web is failing right now. The Web is pretty much the Wild Wild West...and it should not be sanitized according to someone elses standards. __________________ Asus P8P67 WS Revolution \| Intel 2600K @ 4.7 GHz \| Win 7 Pro 64 \|8 gigs Corsair 1600 \| Two Diamond 6990's in Crossfire\| Corsair AX1200 \| Thermalright Silver Arrow \| Western Digital Black 2TB 64 meg cache \| Lian-Li PC-A71B \| Logitec Z-5500 \| Three Asus 26" VW266H monitors running under Eyefinity \| Last edited by David M; 10-29-2005 at 11:26 PM.