[LINK] GetUp anti-censorship campaign gets cash fast

[Stilgherrian]

On 07/12/2008, at 10:52 AM, David Boxall wrote:
> At 6/12/2008 9:39 PM Karl Auer wrote:
>> On Sat, 2008-12-06 at 21:10 +1100, David Boxall wrote:
>>> The most substantial Internet threat to children comes from  
>>> predators
>>> who groom them online for abuse in the real world.
>>
>> I strongly suspect that this is quite, quite false.
>> ...
>> Show me the numbers
>> if you want to change my mind. Real numbers, gathered by real
>> researchers. Not the rubbery (and in several cases apparently
>> *invented*) figures as bandied about by the pro-censorship brigade.
> I'm confused.  How is censorship supposed to affect predators'  
> grooming
> practices?

What's to be confused about? Someone said "children are in danger", so  
you must stop thinking and do whatever it is that they want to do,  
because if you don't you're a pedophile. Internetbadthingchildren.  
It's as simple as that.

Stil


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