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This is very much about literacy

- do we expect firewalls on books children read, on radio they listen to? No. We expect parental supervision

Lets get back to blaming the parents please



Do books and radio that children have ready access to have hardcore and/or illegal pornography.

Schools purchase from book catalogues that are "censored" in this sense and [legal] FTA radio is equally censored. So why shouldn't we allow people to get their internet equally censored.

Parental supervision includes using commercial services that censor hardcore pornography.


Well, the UK did have a country wide ban on "promoting homosexuality" in schools ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Section_28 ). They don't believe in parental supervision for some things.


There are people that demand libraries and schools remove books they find inappropriate. This is nothing new and will continue forever.




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