Posted @ whirlpool - ILCF pt11

Where is the 'moral' line where you DO feel this might pose a potential problem? An unscrupulous man in power banning certain site encouraging a certain religion? Blocking libertarian or 'alternative' political views? I'm just curious of when in your book the tool goes from useful to questionable.

When I ramp this all up to the kind of level that Mark Newton knows me better for, it all becomes quite irrelevant. If I'm quite prepared to burn books that various folk deem holy (and probably idolize so much that they would viciously kill me for doing so) then I'm hardly going to be all that much bothered (let alone commit the sin of idolatry over) with what I choose to call "the internut".

Folk have been misusing/idolising the contents of so called "holy books" since folk first started scatching on rocks or tieing knots in ropes, so it is no surprise that the relatively latest form of information preservation and transfer should be similarly misused ... or idolised !

I'm more interested in the message than the medium and thus don't really give a crap whether it be via scratched rocks, knotted ropes, printed paper, or packet exchange via optic fibre, etc.

If the foundations are sound, the house will stand ... but still no excuse for idolatry or ascribing more worth to something than it deserves/is due.

Does that satisfy your curiosity [deleted] ?

regarDS

PS: I've read virtually every message in this entire thread and look in on a daily basis but simply have not seen much needing responding to or drawing attention to in the last week other than the mis attributed quotes (with most of those responses blatted by mods) and so didn't.

I'll now ask the question, respect the answer and back it up with deeds. Do people in this forum want to share the forum with those of a contrary opinion to their's or not ? If not and you want a forum full of only agreeably like-minded, I'll leave you to it, but conversly, if you actually want this particular corner/facet of the internut to be free and unfettered, then leave off the "troll" cop-outs and herring punching and start practicing what you preach.

That "unfiltered internet" includeds me. Someone who disagrees with many of you re: ILCF (among probably many other things). I don't take it personally but I'm curious as to why some of you seem to.