Declan McCullagh wrote:
EPIC today released a report that finds that "family-friendly" search engines typically block access to 99 percent of the material on the Internet that would be appropriate for young people.
This is no more of a surprise than the results of studies which show that inbreeding among those in cloistered geographical areas severely limits the genetic diversity of the enclosed population. "Family-friendly" inevitably boils down to being a dishonestly used simile for "ignorant christian-values." Despite the fact that 'family-unfriendly Jesus' spoke of his aim of setting family members against one another, the followers of his mainstream religious cult are determined to institute their own religious values in the legal system, by working toward forcing their own religously-oriented filtering system on all citizens. Tell me, please, who among the organizations claiming to work for freedom of speech are ready to demand that the words of Jesus be subject to the same filtering as those of Aleister Crowley? Who is going to demand that the works such as the Bible be subject to the same filtering values as the works of Lenny Bruce?
The text of the "Faulty Filters" Report is available at:
http://www2.epic.org/reports/filter_report.html http://www.ifea.net
The filters are not "faulty." They do exactly what they are meant to do--imprison the minds and life-experience of those who are forced to use them. Those promoting volumandatory content ratings want to imprison everyone, not just their own children. I't the same old lying religious fascists up to their same old oppression of those who breed outside their own genetic family. Fuck 'em. TruthMonger