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The Ninth Circle
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- February 18, 2010
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Your examples of censorship are indeed needed but are extremes and don't apply to an internet forum's rants and ramblings of which cause no harm nor threaten it. Discussing transexuals, making racist statements and generally shunning everything mainstream are well protected rights in America. There are many public places in which one can discuss such things, just as the Codex is on the internet. Would you choose to censor a KKK rally or even MTV's old show Love Line which discussed detailed sexual issues, both of the normal and more abnormal variety? One could walk outside to see one or flip on the TV to see the other.Censorship, to a degree, is required for safety. Yelling out "fire" in a crowded theater will get you arrested, and that is a form of censorship. Same for threatening to end someone's life, or harm them in some fashion. Both are censorship.
Basically, if you don't want your son or daughter either being seen in it or saying it, don't post it.
Cable TV can air anything they want at risk to advertising revenue and almost any child has access to basic cable channels. If one chose to air questionable material, would you ask for it to be taken off or take steps to moderate your child's ability to view it? This is the difference in philosophy when it comes to moderation.
I've moderated many a forum and feel that sometimes letting the line blur allows deeper, more fulfilling discussion with the downside of adding more difficulty to the moderator's job to keep it civil. If one really cares about their community, they will go that extra step to keep all lines open, so to speak and learn to adapt to the community rather than having it conform to their personal viewpoints on different "touchy" subjects.
I would assume if one did not want their children reading a certain forum one would do better to monitor their children, especially their internet surfing. Logically, there has to be an environment for adults to let loose of the "child appropriate" discussion handcuffs and the Codex serves this purpose, admittedly almost too well. Codex's registration age is 13, while we can all agree it is not a PG-13 forum, so maybe by bumping the age requirement would minimize some issue people have with it? If you are forewarned of the mature nature one could hardly complain about what they find within.
I may be in the minority but I found the misdirecting tubgirl links hilarious, but then again I don't take myself or my internet experience too seriously. It's a laugh and then move on. For what it's worth, they, at least at one time, were really cutting down on false hotlinking making it a bannable offense.
While many view the Codex as a cesspool, you have to realize that many at the Codex view other forums, including this one, as "kiddie glove" forums. The Codex sees itself as extreme dodgeball and sees other forums as invisible jump-rope (or whatever nonsense our Public School System is pushing out this week..). I prefer knowing any discussion is exactly what the poster feels without feeling the need to tip-toe around the subject. Being in-your-face and honest has a strange feeling of.. purity.
It's a matter of taste, as all things.
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