Internet Censorship/Parental Control, Wrong or Not? Options

[firechild]

Pros:
They can't see anything you don't want "them" too.
Cons:
Stifles creativity and "freedom" of speech (not all that free anymore)

Your Ideas?

[firechild]

i think [personally] its cutting people off from the real world.
no opinion on parental control.

Censorship is just dumb and should be reserved for banana republic governments. Once you cut off information [Audial, Visual, Or Textual] you limit the person's capacity to learn new information [i.e. a new language, memorize a line of a poem, ect.]

Parental Control would me much easier if the kids knew why, it was bad and [hopefully] they won't do it often.

edit: http://www.websense.com/content/censorship-policy.aspx

[karmakiller]

i think [personally] its cutting people off from the real world.
no opinion on parental control.

Censorship is just dumb and should be reserved for banana republic governments. Once you cut off information [Audial, Visual, Or Textual] you limit the person's capacity to learn new information [i.e. a new language, memorize a line of a poem, ect.]

Parental Control would me much easier if the kids knew why, it was bad and [hopefully] they won't do it often.

edit: http://www.websense.com/content/censorship-policy.aspx

I don't think that ISPs should have the right to censor what their customers look at or download, but I do that it's up to the parent if he or she wants to censor their child. Parents censor what their children listen to, see, and read because they don't think their child can handle it or should even see it, period... so telling the child what's censored and why would probably be something the parents who censor stuff wouldn't want their kids to know about either. They'd censor them from the reasoning behind why they're censored, haha.

So far I've never heard a good enough reason to justify kids seeing pornography, graphic images or graphic language (c'mon, what kid needs to read neo-nazi webpages?). When they are older they can make their own decisions, but if a child is looking at something or downloading something illegal it's the parent who gets in trouble... so even if the parent doesn't have an issue with their kid accessing it they still have a way to cover themselves.