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tiger72
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Re: The blocks are reasonable!!! - THINK OF THE CHILDREN OMG!
said by jvanbrecht  :On the flip side, the "for the children" argument gets thrown around an awful lot, when it comes to child porn, its a no brainer, but whats next, sex education sites, game sites with sexual content, all those laws aimed at child porn seem to include all sorts of broad contexts, rife for abuse, and I am sort of against that. Look at the french, and you'll see what's next: "racist" sites, "terrorism" sites. You know, for the children.
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"What makes us omniscient? Have we a record of omniscience? ...If we can't persuade nations with comparable values of the merit of our cause, we'd better reexamine our reasoning."
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1 edit | said by tiger72 :said by jvanbrecht :On the flip side, the "for the children" argument gets thrown around an awful lot, when it comes to child porn, its a no brainer, but whats next, sex education sites, game sites with sexual content, all those laws aimed at child porn seem to include all sorts of broad contexts, rife for abuse, and I am sort of against that. Look at the french, and you'll see what's next: "racist" sites, "terrorism" sites. You know, for the children. Slippery slope. If you don't do anything now, the time will come when nothing can be done to help you.
said by »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came :
When the Nazis came for the communists,
I remained silent;
I was not a communist.
When they locked up the social democrats,
I remained silent;
I was not a social democrat.
When they came for the trade unionists,
I did not speak out;
I was not a trade unionist.
When they came for the Jews,
I remained silent;
I wasn't a Jew.
When they came for me,
there was no one left to speak out.
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tiger72
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| You win at misapplying Godwin's Law.
I see no direct comparison between TWC and Hitler as is necessary to invoke Godwin's Law.
I do see a comparison between TWC's increasing censorship and the mindset of "I don't care because it doesn't effect me yet".
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1 edit | said by tiger72 :You win at misapplying Godwin's Law. I see no direct comparison between TWC and Hitler as is necessary to invoke Godwin's Law. I do see a comparison between TWC's increasing censorship and the mindset of "I don't care because it doesn't effect me yet". Well, the Wikipedia article I linked to says "usenet" conversations, so if you want to be technical it doesn't apply to a web forum conversation ... but assuming it does, the link defines Godwin's law with the phrase "the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one." And the original post I responded to quoted: "When the Nazis came for the communists, I remained silent" which I'm pretty sure qualifies as "a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler."
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