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> Google also censors pornography because a subset of users are offended by it. Censoring pornography doesn't infringe anyone's human rights.
by davidjgraph 13y ago
> Google also censors pornography because a subset of users are offended by it.
Censoring pornography doesn't infringe anyone's human rights.
- icebraining 13y agoWhy? Pornography is speech too.
- Shivetya 13y agowhen a private entity chooses what it displays to the public I have no qualms with it, its censorship when a government entity chooses what you can or cannot view, say, or read.
- einhverfr 13y agoPlease, so that we can test such an assertion: 1. Define human rights 2. Provide a methodology by which they can be objectively known. Is a right to be left alone to one's culture a human right? Is a right not to be deprived by outside powers of one's native language a human right? And who gets to set the limits on the outer limits of such a right? (i.e. is the right to advocate the position that genocide of, say, black folk, is desirable a human right? What about pornography?). My own sense is that usually these have no epistemology behind them and are based solely on projecting one's a priori assumptions onto the world.