Quote by bucksfuncpl
Alpsals
I have stopped quoting because I tend to find too many nested quotes irritating and hard to read. The CDA in the US is not that different from existing obscene publications legislation in the UK. It s essentially a prohibition on the publication of material. This is easy to circumvent in practice by moving the hosting "offshore".
The UK proposals are unique as piercedJon remarked, that they essentially criminalise the viewing of material. The offence becomes one of "looking" at something that is deemed unacceptable (since in practice images are stored on harddrives involuntarily due to the way in which browser software and windows operating systems work). Only in more repressive regimes such as China has there been similar attempts to criminalise the viewing of material other than child pornography.
Once essential freedom is eroded in this way, where does it end? Those willing to give up the freedom they enjoy for a greater good might consider the amount of freedom they might ultimately be surrendering.
..I'm not arguing for a ban..only sensible debate.
