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Anime Jason 
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Subj: While I, too, prefer self-policing to Big Brother ...Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 at 10:30:29 am EST (Viewed 381 times)
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Posted: Sat Dec 01, 2007 at 08:57:17 am EST (Viewed 403 times) |
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They were probably under pressure from parent's groups to implement something like this. I'd honestly rather have content filtering become voluntary, like the video game industry did with age labeling, than have it forced upon us.
Take the PVB for instance. I'd rather voluntarily put a "parental supervision" label on the site than have every filtering application used by parents and workplaces block it as a possibly inappropriate site.
It's also one of those things I'd rather see free market take care of before the government does. I'd hate to have to worry that the FBI is reading this site and can shut it down on a moment's notice and prosecute me if someone posts something they don't like.
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... The problem is, if you actually look at how this is being carried out, it's so open to abuse that it amounts to countless Little Brothers, who now can conceivably report any entry for "hate speech" or "offensive content" if its religious, political, philosophical or any other views disagree with their own, especially since there is no recourse given for "flagged" LJ users who wish to contest such allegations against themselves. Also, the whole "protecting children" angle is bullshit, because LJ itself has officially stated that LJ users under 18 may still post entries including adult-level topics, but they may not see any other LJs which include similarly adult-level topics, so gone is the ability of adolescents to talk with one another about a lot of the growing-up stuff they go through at that age, and in its place is a system that gives potential pedophiles a one-way window into teens' sex lives.
The fact that LJ changed everyone's settings to "filtered" by default, without telling anyone, likewise did little to endear them to their own users. I've had to correspond individually with several of my fellow LJ users, to guide them through the process of switching the settings on their LJs, so that they can see my entries on their friends pages now without having to un-collapse every single one individually.
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