re: #437 klys

Which is what makes the cries of censorship so odd. Especially when the same people are ok with REMOVING IT FROM THE INTERNET.

Note, again: I am in support of removing child porn both from the Internet and from search listing.

It comes out odd when you conflate concerns over the control that private entities have over access to what has become a basic resource in modern first-world life with ‘supporting the publication of criminal material’.

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again, and once again everyone will completely ignore it and kneejerk downding me: it’s not about defending abhorrent criminal practices. It’s about the questions raised by the power of unaccountable entities to exercise a large degree of control over what information the public has access to.

I want the material gone, just like you do. I don’t want it to be linked to, just like you don’t. I think the people involved with its production are scum, just like you do. But I would rather its removal be handled by attacking the source of the problem, which is specifically and directly targeted at the problem itself, instead of developing a means of ‘hiding’ the problem — a means that could then also be used for less scrupulous ends once it’s in place.

But whatever. Nobody cares. They see “children” and short-circuit, and assume that anybody that has any ideas different from theirs is some sort of cartoonishly evil thug that “supports the publication”. There’s clearly no room for nuance in this discussion, so screw it.