Comment Re:Privatized censorship an insidious evil (Score 1) 155
Agreed Corperate censorship is scary as hell. The fact that a movie has to get an R (or lower) rating inorder to have a prayer of making money is scary. But in this case I don't think ACLU is backing a corperate solution, instead they are saying that a number of solutions exist without government intervention. If that means that a parent lodes cybersitter, or if they just go into their browser and put a bunch of sites on the banned list.
The argument that you would rather the government be the censor than some company is fine but how about not giving up the fight so easy. How about we let parents decide what their children see, if they don't like violent movies they can keep their kids away, if they think that porn is bad they can monitor their childrens net usage. It isn't about choosing the lesser of evils, it is about keeping the choices in the hands of the individuals not a company or government.
The argument that you would rather the government be the censor than some company is fine but how about not giving up the fight so easy. How about we let parents decide what their children see, if they don't like violent movies they can keep their kids away, if they think that porn is bad they can monitor their childrens net usage. It isn't about choosing the lesser of evils, it is about keeping the choices in the hands of the individuals not a company or government.
