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What will happen when someone decides that a controversial political belief you have, or activity you participate in, is something they "would prefer not to see

by Archio 10y ago

What will happen when someone decides that a controversial political belief you have, or activity you participate in, is something they "would prefer not to see"?

pavel_lishin 10y ago
Or a merely unpopular one?
vivekd 10y ago
I don't think that slippery slope is likely. There is a world of difference between pornography and controversial political speech. We have had obscenity laws putting strong restrictions on pornography for a very long time (see 18 USC 1462 - 1468) and they haven't resulted in other speech rights being curtailed, I don't think there is any reason to think this law will be any different.
- pavel_lishin 10y ago
  > There is a world of difference between pornography and controversial political speech. Until a website you frequent gets marked as a "human trafficking hub", whatever that means.
darpa_escapee 10y ago
No one who supports this bill cares or believes it will effect them. Government has never used precedent that pornography filters set to expand the scope of filtering before [0] [3]. The government doesn't have incentive to block things that aren't 'obscene' [1] [2]. The warm fuzzies the idea of a wholesome internet limited to Facebook, World Net Daily and Veggie Tales videos, absent of bad ideas and hard truths, brings are too intoxicating. [0] http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2470767/uk-government-wants-great-firewall-of-britain-to-keep-out-foreign-invaders http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2470767/uk-governme... [1] https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2016/08/india-accessing-blocked-website-potentially-carries-3-year-sentence/ https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2016/08/india-acc... [2] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/jan/22/sopa-pipa-johhn-naughton https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/jan/22/sopa-pipa... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_United_Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_Uni...

by Archio 10y ago

What will happen when someone decides that a controversial political belief you have, or activity you participate in, is something they "would prefer not to see"?

pavel_lishin 10y ago

Or a merely unpopular one?

vivekd 10y ago

I don't think that slippery slope is likely. There is a world of difference between pornography and controversial political speech. We have had obscenity laws putting strong restrictions on pornography for a very long time (see 18 USC 1462 - 1468) and they haven't resulted in other speech rights being curtailed, I don't think there is any reason to think this law will be any different.

pavel_lishin 10y ago
> There is a world of difference between pornography and controversial political speech. Until a website you frequent gets marked as a "human trafficking hub", whatever that means.

darpa_escapee 10y ago

No one who supports this bill cares or believes it will effect them. Government has never used precedent that pornography filters set to expand the scope of filtering before [0] [3]. The government doesn't have incentive to block things that aren't 'obscene' [1] [2]. The warm fuzzies the idea of a wholesome internet limited to Facebook, World Net Daily and Veggie Tales videos, absent of bad ideas and hard truths, brings are too intoxicating. [0] http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2470767/uk-government-wants-great-firewall-of-britain-to-keep-out-foreign-invaders http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2470767/uk-governme... [1] https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2016/08/india-accessing-blocked-website-potentially-carries-3-year-sentence/ https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/2016/08/india-acc... [2] https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/jan/22/sopa-pipa-johhn-naughton https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/jan/22/sopa-pipa... [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_United_Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_censorship_in_the_Uni...