Censorship

[InbetweenDreams]

I really dislike censorship, anyway I think it should be just an alert to the public.

The only censor that I like (or I could like) is the one used to limit violence-racism and some forms of ignorant concepts-ideas. In any other case I find censorship a very stupid wrong thing.

I think that is a reasonable position. The thing that gets kind of sticky is the subjective censoring, meaning who gets to determine what is too racy. For instance there was a big debate on renaming the Redskins to something else, despite the popular opinion being that it doesn't need to be changed.

Same thing with censoring idiots and their shallow points of view, someone has to decide and that is the scary part.

Likewise, if we have no censors we do run the risk that some people who are dumb promote very bad and possibly damaging ideas. However, that's happening already (terrorism for instance) and I think that a lot of the radicalism is due to the lack of exposure to different cultures and points of view. Or perhaps the world is too much for people?

I think censorship is fine as long as it is black and white, but what's really black and white? Are sex and foul language things that should be censored anyway?