Censorship is saying that the man must have milk for dinner because the baby cannot handle steak. I am inherently against it, and I agree with you. If a parent has a problem with their kid getting their hands on a show, or book, or internet page, or being harassed on the internet, or offended or swayed by literature or media, then it is the parent who should deal with their child, not the government. This is sad and pathetic, and it speaks ill of our societies supposed maturity. Aside from which, it does infringe on one of our rights, and I can easily see this as progressing to a state bordering paranoia, "Big Brother" style monitoring, and the beginnings of police states. It is common historical information that a tyranny will always suppress A) the people's access to weapons, B) freedom of speech, and C) the vices of the commoners (such as tobacco nowadays).
Well it bothers me for two reasons, the fact that it's another way for someone to stand over your shoulder shaking their finger at you telling you not to say something.
More than that though it really bothers me that more and more people expect someone else to take care of their kids. A year or two ago a woman was suing a game distributor. She left her 12-year-old home with her 5-year-old to go grocery shopping and came home and the 12-year-old had hung himself. She blamed the videogame he was playing.
My problem with that is if she thought the videogame was wrong she shouldn't have bought it for him. A twelve year old doesn't have a steady income where he can go out and buy whatever he wants. Secondly why would she leave a 12-year-old kid home to take care of a 5-year-old?
And what the hell game was he playing that would make him do that?
Yeah, there is no responsibility or accountability in people anymore. They don't want to admit that they fucked up, not if you can blame someone else and get cash out of it. People make me fucking sick.
(I better not say that too loudly, the internet censorship bureau might be listening)
True. They're probably reading this right now. *Hey Fuckers!*
Ahem.
I don't remember what game it was honestly. I should try to dig it up we read it in my public communications class. I want to say WoW because it had to do with not having enough money or some such nonsense.
I know I'm not even sure how that would work I mean could you imagine how many people it would take to patrol the internet? I mean it's you know... THE INTERNET! I am not sure they thought that one all the way through.
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This is sad and pathetic, and it speaks ill of our societies supposed maturity.
Aside from which, it does infringe on one of our rights, and I can easily see this as progressing to a state bordering paranoia, "Big Brother" style monitoring, and the beginnings of police states.
It is common historical information that a tyranny will always suppress A) the people's access to weapons, B) freedom of speech, and C) the vices of the commoners (such as tobacco nowadays).
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More than that though it really bothers me that more and more people expect someone else to take care of their kids. A year or two ago a woman was suing a game distributor. She left her 12-year-old home with her 5-year-old to go grocery shopping and came home and the 12-year-old had hung himself. She blamed the videogame he was playing.
My problem with that is if she thought the videogame was wrong she shouldn't have bought it for him. A twelve year old doesn't have a steady income where he can go out and buy whatever he wants. Secondly why would she leave a 12-year-old kid home to take care of a 5-year-old?
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Yeah, there is no responsibility or accountability in people anymore. They don't want to admit that they fucked up, not if you can blame someone else and get cash out of it.
People make me fucking sick.
(I better not say that too loudly, the internet censorship bureau might be listening)
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Ahem.
I don't remember what game it was honestly. I should try to dig it up we read it in my public communications class. I want to say WoW because it had to do with not having enough money or some such nonsense.
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