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Comment Re: I've got this (Score 2) 400

If you're letting children browse the internet without supervision, they're going to be the ones who end up needing professional help.

Raising your kid the way you think is right is your job, not society's. If that includes shielding them from horrifying imagery, then shield them, but don't demand society shield everyone because you are too lazy/incompetent/whatever to rear a child properly with the assistance and cooperation of 7 billion other people.

And if you're worried about them seeing these things while outside your influence, might I suggest you do a better job teaching them right from wrong, so you won't have to worry about them getting their morality from YouTube videos.

Comment Re: I've got this (Score 1) 400

Puff the magic dragon is not a "fairy tale dragon." Fairy tale dragons are draconian creatures from ancient tales designed to teach children safety and morals.

Puff the magic dragon is a mid-20th century allegory for getting high by smoking marijuana, written by hippies in the 1960s and set to music.

Comment Re:I've got this (Score 1) 400

Wrong.

Censoring ISIS recruiting videos is very clearly not in favor of ISIS and the only freedom it removes is one's freedom to get brainwashed by Muslim extremists.

There is no slippery slope here. Ban all videos put out by an organization called ISIS that feature executions. Who (that was care about) would be harmed by this action?

When did Goebbels create a slashdot account?

Comment Re:Censorship at /., HN, Reddit. (Score 1) 400

Nothing on slashdot is censored - browse at -1 to see every comment regardless of moderation. Posting limits are ties to karma, and designed to limit trollbots (so we're not scrolling through 10,000 MyCleanPC and goatse posts on every thread), not censor discussions.

Your butthurt, though allowed and uncensored, is misplaced.

Comment Re:I've got this (Score 1) 400

Only jihadist culture is so demented that they think these videos help their cause.

Oh I don't know... ever seen a US Army recruiting commercial? Less gore by a longshot, but the principle is the same - glorification of war and violence under the tagline "kill people who disagree with your governing leaders!"

Remember the US soldier who slaughtered a bunch of women and kids with a machine gun? There are plenty of Americans who would be happy to show that video to the world over and over again - so maybe we're not the flawless, perfected society we seem to think ourselves when judging others.

Comment Re:I have an even better idea (Score 1) 304

The right to travel is basically saying the government doesn't have a right to lock you into one position not allowing you to move by any means you have available to you.

Citation needed.

Also, if right to travel doesn't pertain to means of transportation, what if the government said private jets were now the only vehicle you could legally travel in? Wouldn't that prohibit our right to travel freely? Or are you going to pretend a person could walk from LA to NY in any amount of time considered reasonable in the 21st Century?

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