MagiCMuses

Censorship is unacceptable! It is not ok to attack the rights of all those using the web in order to prevent some from behaving badly. Many have protested the infringement of rights in other countries, are bitterly opposed to the practice of controlling what citizens in any place can see. Apart from the basic ill of the practice itself, it also leaves us open to the potential to spread the criteria for censorship beyond the illegal and dangerous to the politically unpalatable. Like such behaviours as child porn or paedophilia in the 'real' world, these gross practices in the digital world should be the subject of specialist police investigation that does not infringe on the rights of the vast majority of the public who are not engaging in them. Our civil liberties are precious and diminishing and the politicians who go down this path will be held accountable. The web is a tool to ensure this happens - no matter how slowly we're forced to surf.