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The stale smell of censorship

Posted by Ultraist on 2010-June-19 20:14:39 EDT, Saturday
In reply to New site I just came across! posted by FreeThinkerGL on 2010-June-19 02:50:51 EDT, Saturday

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He seems to be suggesting that all organisations identifying as anti-pedophile should be subject to special restrictions on their speech and activity. Aside from being a pipe-dream, exactly what good would come from sanitising and suppressing (failing to address) violent lusts?

Methinks that if adopted, said laws would only be intended to breed impotent public hostility towards those who they "protect", ensuring at the same time that they are not goaded towards political rebellion. Tempering the witch hunt with big-state "liberalism" - potentially far more dangerous than raw hate, as it adds "reason" and "moderation" to the status quo.

People (such as the sex offender who penned this) are all too ready to forget that well executed censorship can have the effect of moderating, sanitising and stabilising undesirable social attitudes - instead adopting a short-sighted and simplistic purgatory ideal.

And why is certain information OK in the hands of state officials, but not the public? Is that the kind of ethos upon which to build a liberation movement?


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