Kosh

I think that our Digital Economy should be based on pushing the boundaries on expanding the amount of information online and not trying to censor it. Just by proposing this filter we're making ourselves a laughing stock in the IT community, the number of jokes about how backward we are is as ridiculous as the censorship itself. First and foremost, the problem of children being more advanced on computers than their parents is rapidly coming to a head anyway as the current working generation who are becoming parents are far more tech savvy than their predecessors. Of course, that's assuming that the plan behind filtering was protecting children, as we can see from the reports it's not going to protect anyone. The internet has become the resource it is today based on free expression, people can make a blog claiming that aliens are behind everything just as much as they can print flyers and hand them out, the information is just easier to get at now. Information itself isn't a bad thing, how can we call ourselves intelligent people if we don't hear all sides of a story. Even the completely arrogant one-sided and blatantly wrong comments about this filter aren't a bad thing, disregarding that is just as bad as being ignored ourselves for doing the research.