Let’s take a ride down the slippery slope. Consider the methods by which children (or teens) can be prevented from viewing “objectionable content” online. The perfect way to do it? No more Internet, period. The next less drastic step? Massive oversight of the entire Internet, requiring that all content be published through, say, a government entity, and even then there is no guarantee that objectionable content won’t be published. Next we would have designated third parties that do the regulation management instead of the government, which opens more holes for bad content but makes it somewhat easier to publish content. Now keep following this inverse traversal of the slippery slope we’re on, and where are we? We’re at the part where some assclown can come along and demand that an ISP *VIA GOVERNMENT ORDER* block out some form of content because “kids might see something bad.” Granted, they trump up the “threat” by using typical lawyer exaggeration such as “systematically committed felonies” and “horrible breaches.” That’s not too terrible yet, but how far does it have to go before someone stands up and says “to hell with this censorship?” Don’t people have a right to self-censor? If someone sees that Google is spitting out porn to their kids, don’t they have the right to take measures to keep them off of it and have them use other search engines? Why is it that governmental bodies are parenting the general population more and more as time goes on?

Have we really degraded to the point that we can’t make decisions for ourselves? Or is it that some people wish to exact their individual morality and beliefs upon others, using the government as the tool to bring about that goal of fascism?

I wasn’t aware that a government would “blacklist” websites; it seems that the free market is the place for such “blacklisting” to take place to me. But then again maybe not, since governments have proven for centuries that they can surely manage things better than the private sector, like healthcare. Yep, government-run healthcare makes free market healthcare look like a joke, especially since the government-run healthcare doesn’t have waiting lists and rationing out of live-saving operations. Oh, wait…

(Remember who said “the government that governs least, governs best?” Hmmm?)