Posted @ whirlpool - ILCF pt5

To do this, some determination of legal or illegal/appropriate or innapropriate needs to be made.

derspatz writes

Agree, although hasn't that already been done ?

Yes we have laws that state what is legal. To my knowledge, no censorship board has classified the entire internet based on Australian law, no.

Ah, communication clash/packet crash. I was indicating that I was under the impression that "some determination of legal or illegal/appropriate or innapropriate" has already been done in relation to the OFFLINE world. One would think that the same would apply to the online world, hence my question "hasn't that already been done".

If you are happy to have a machine try to determine what is legal before you get to see it, that's fine if you keep in on your PC thanks.

I am already more than happy to have a machine try and determine whether email etc should come to me or not, and I would like it extended to easily blat/twit a whole bunch of other stuff for not only myself but also those whom I have a duty of care in relation to even when I'm not necessarily in the immediate vicinity of.

That would include my family, my neighbore, my communities, my town, my society, and my nation.

Anyway, isn't that part of the reason human kind is so busy making machines ? To do the work for us that we don't want to have to do or is too distasteful to do ?

Sure, we all have the God Given Right to choose to drink poison if that is what we want to do, but I for one am also of the view that we have the responsibility to try and ensure poison isn't accidentally quaffed by those yet to know what is or isn't good for them, as well as try and prevent those who do know better from choosing to similarly harm themselves.

Which is why our society has developed and implemented laws and punishments and preventitive measures in relation to things deemed illegal. We've got that kind of system working as well as can be expected in the offline world, but now it is long overdue that similar attention is brought to the online world – which in turn, I might add, will obviously contribute towards improving things in that regarding in the offline world.

So, bring on the machines and let them rule, for I doubt if I'll see anything other than improvement for my preferred use of teh McWeb.

regarDS