No Censorship, like like no economic intervention, no prohibitions etc. are not intuitive concepts. Censorship is not bad just because it's bad (like murder or

No Censorship, like like no economic intervention, no prohibitions etc. are not intuitive concepts. Censorship is not bad just because it's bad (like murder or assault). It doesn't usually hurt anyone directly. In fact it's trying to help. If heroin, fascism, homosexuality or anorexia are bad, why not work to stop them? To oppose censorship, you need to accept that in order to censor bad things, you need to have institutions that decide what is bad (don't we already have those?) and a means of blocking them. This will lead to bad things like censoring good things. There is no way around that, just like outrunning light. That's a pretty flimsy argument to make. If it hasn't been drilled into you, you probably won't accept it. This isn't something that just people in the UAE or China will not 'get.' Australians today will not be convinced that banning pedophilia sites is a bad idea. Try separating a debate about the legalization of drugs from a discussion about how harmful it is to take drugs.