Comment Re:Squating? (Score 1) 253
"The point is to not make things easy for racists; if they want to spread their views, they'll have to work harder at it because one obvious place they might go to on the web is unavailable to them."
I'm sure people would raise hell if microsoft started registering linux related websites in an attempt to block information about linux from being "easy" to get to. How is this really any different? Do racists not have the right to publish thier views in a place where people who are looking for the material can find it? Not that this will make much of a difference. If you are smart enough to type in a url, I'm sure you can work a search engine... how is that any harder?
Making it hard to find information on a given subject is the first step towards censoring that subject. I guess this implies the NAACP supports censorship... At least for things they dont like, but then I guess everyone does.
What if a group started to register NAACP related or tolerance related names in an attempt to block that information? Or if a group with anti-gay views bought up pro-gay sounding names? I'm sure a big uproar over that would ensue... we wouldnt want these ideas to be blocked now would we?
By saying "And what of it?" it would seem to me that you support censorship, which, in my opinion, this is a form of. This is even worse then people publishing racist material in the first place. You cannot selectivly apply the freedom of speech, or fight for its protection only for your own views. It works for everyone, or it works for no one.
Anyway... If you find racist material offensive... dont read it.
I'm sure people would raise hell if microsoft started registering linux related websites in an attempt to block information about linux from being "easy" to get to. How is this really any different? Do racists not have the right to publish thier views in a place where people who are looking for the material can find it? Not that this will make much of a difference. If you are smart enough to type in a url, I'm sure you can work a search engine... how is that any harder?
Making it hard to find information on a given subject is the first step towards censoring that subject. I guess this implies the NAACP supports censorship... At least for things they dont like, but then I guess everyone does.
What if a group started to register NAACP related or tolerance related names in an attempt to block that information? Or if a group with anti-gay views bought up pro-gay sounding names? I'm sure a big uproar over that would ensue... we wouldnt want these ideas to be blocked now would we?
By saying "And what of it?" it would seem to me that you support censorship, which, in my opinion, this is a form of. This is even worse then people publishing racist material in the first place. You cannot selectivly apply the freedom of speech, or fight for its protection only for your own views. It works for everyone, or it works for no one.
Anyway... If you find racist material offensive... dont read it.
