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What content is censored in USA and other "free" countries? I mean, it's not that we just get the full firehose here, and other countries are variously prudish
by CWuestefeld 17y ago
What content is censored in USA and other "free" countries?
I mean, it's not that we just get the full firehose here, and other countries are variously prudish. In America we do filter things especially for child porn, and also for various other illegal topics (especially intellectual property).
Before you jump on me and say that we're just protecting children (or whoever the victims of other censored crimes are), please consider how well the actual legalities map to actual objective harms, or even to community-accepted morals.
I assert that we're still subject to a non-trivial degree of censorship in America, and the boundaries of that censorship map very poorly to an objective harms, and only approximately to any morality that's pervasive through our culture.
So any argument against filtering for the laws and culture in other parts of the world can't just be "censorship is wrong", because then you indict our own rules as well. It's a much more complex question.