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[Hero999]

personally i think the internet should be highly censored, freedom of speech is great so long as it is not abused, stupid and misleading things should be removed, if people want to act like children they will have to be treated like children

I've heard that one before.

Fair enough censorship is sometimes good but it's more often used for bad rather than good. The Internet is already censored to some extent for example child porn is not allowed. Overall censorship is bad because it means that governments and powerful businesses can stop people learning of the truth prevent people from challengling them - it's a slippery slope!

If people believe this kind of crap it's their fault, if they're searching through the Internet they should be able to find the truth anyway, if they just choose to believe the lies then it's their problem.

 

[Thunderchild]

thats true too i know censorship can be dangerous but frankly youtube should have removed that but no they are more interested in having another page to show adverts on it all comes down to money, and by the way the net is not so censored at all ok child porn is probably the only thing that get looked up, you go and google for a crack to activate nero burning rom, there are a host of warez sites offering not the crack but to buy the whole deal already cracked from them for 1/3 the price and the have abvious addresses like warezdownloads, funny that there are loads of them and they are running with no problems there's no checking done on the web at all it's free range for fraudsters, before censorship is even considered we need police patrols its not like you need a 007 investigation to unveil warez and illigal porn sites

 

[Hero999]

This topic has also highlighted another point about censorship, it stifles debate. For example the word porn is censored on these forums which makes parts of your post hard to understand. Although I don't like the censorship I can understand your post and there is a way to get round it by using [color][/color] tags but imagine if they decided to sensor words like communism, Nazi and nuclear!

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

Although I don't like the censorship I can understand your post and there is a way to get round it by using [color][/color] tags!

And a good way to get banned!

 

[Thunderchild]

I'm not talking such censorship but intelligent removal of offending material and stupidity if you were to post erotic stuff on youtube it would be removed real fast but that thing has been there for months

 

[Hero999]

Nigel and I have discussed this before and we agree to disagree.

I never use such words on this forum unless I'm having a serious discussion.

I don't mind other words being banned but the word "porn" is not a swear word therefore it shouldn't be on the list of censored words. There are more offensive words which aren't on the list of censord words which I've seen on these forums and I'm not going to repeat them.

I can see the argument that it might help the moderators but in my experiance from other forums, most pornographic posts don't even contain the word "porn" but links to porn sites or use other errotic language such e.g. "Click below to see busty topless babes.".

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

It's not my site, I'm just a moderator, so I have no control over the list of banned words - and I presume it's just the default list that comes with the forum software?. As such I have no real opinion on the matter, and wil just support the forums actions, so deliberate evasion of the banned words filter will result in a ban - short term for a first offence.

 

[Thunderchild]

you can always add the evaded versions of the words to the ban list but it is a bit redicolous to ban the word in question as a word it is not offensive it just describes a genere of material

 

[Nicksan]

Where is the banned word list?

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

Where is the banned word list?

In the system software, only the administrator has access to it.

 

[things]

maybe they should post in the forum so people can see what "words" they can't use?

 

[things]

but not the actual word of coarse, maybe just an abbrieveation

 

[Nicksan]

Or, list them somewhere on the forum website for all to see.

 

[jbarnaby2000]

personally i think the internet should be highly censored, freedom of speech is great so long as it is not abused, stupid and misleading things should be removed, if people want to act like children they will have to be treated like children

I read this and I had to do a double take on it....do you actually believe this?? That the internet should be HIGHLY censored?? I know this is not a good forum for this type of discussion...but wow.... and who do you think should decide what is stupid or misleading....our government?? .... right....

 

[Thunderchild]

yes your right it is difficult, in the case of things like youtube the owners of youtube should remove such garbage cmon it's stupid to leave junk like that around but as I said erlier it is apparent that youtube care more about making money by having adds displayed on as much content as possible, most serious forum web masters remove rubbish and spam from their sites

 

[mneary]

You could ban long "sentences" without proper punctuation or capitalization.

 

[Thunderchild]

sorry but when I'm tired my punctuation drops off a little

 

[mneary]

I'm not actually criticizing your grammar, just making an example of why censoring things we don't agree with is dangerous.