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[David Boxall]

At 10:42 AM 6/12/2008 Craig Sanders wrote:
> ...
> a fairly obvious usage of the propaganda smear "free speech == child
> pornography, you sick bastard". ...

A child's best protection is a diligent parent. No filter is perfect. 
The presence of an unreliable filter will tend to lull parents into a 
false sense of security, leading to a reduction in that essential 
diligence.

The most substantial Internet threat to children comes from predators 
who groom them online for abuse in the real world.  A reduction in 
parental diligence increases the predators' potential targets.

The typical reaction of filtering proponents is to imply that critics of 
the plan are in some way involved with paedophilia and/or child porn. I 
believe the shoe is on the other foot. Determining which proponents are 
active predators and which are just unwitting accomplices, I'll leave to 
those who know them better.

-- 
David Boxall                    |  All that is required
                                |  for evil to prevail is
                                |  for good men to do nothing.
                                |     -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797)