[Foundation-l] Controversial content software status

[David Gerard]

2012/3/7 Juliana da Costa José <julianadacostajose at googlemail.com>:

> so it would be not longer possible too, to have medical pictures f.e. from
> surgeries, organs or corpses, because they could frighten people?


Knowledge is an inherently frightening thing, as is the prospect of
other people feeling they have a right to know things in general.
Remember that (a) the right to know things in general does not come
for free - it's a hard-won privilege - and that (b) when someone wants
to suppress others' knowledge of things like inconvenient history[1],
porn has historically been a handy stalking horse.[2]

But of course, anyone who says this is obviously just a troll and troublemaker.


- d.

[1] e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Depictions_of_Muhammad
[2] e.g. http://www.zeropaid.com/news/90367/music-industry-uses-net-neutrality-to-equate-p2p-with-child-porn/