Re: EU Promotes Continent-Wide Censorship

[Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com>]

On Fri, 19 May 2006, Brian Loe wrote:

> On 5/19/06, Drsolly <drsollyp () drsolly com> wrote:
>
> > Consider this. Every country *already* has censorship rules. For example,
> > child pornogaphy is censored everywhere. It "goes too far" and "should be
> > blocked". I think most people agree on this.
>
> Technically, that's not true. It isn't "censored" so much as it is
> considered a by-product of a crime, contraband. Harm is done to
> another human, a person's rights are violated. That is why child porn
> is "censored".

Right. So, what's bad about the various countries of Europe, trying to 
come to a concensus of what constitutes that crime?

 
> The way - in the PAST - the supremes in US allow for any kind of
> cencorship is when it does HARM to another person's rights. Our
> Constitution doesn't say what we are allowed to do - it says what the
> government is allowed to do. In theory, we can do anything we want so
> long as we don't do harm to another - violate another's rights.

In practice, you don't allow people to work as prostitutes, you don't 
allow adults aged 19 to drink alcohol - despite your constitution. But 
we've already been over this, and it probably isn't productive to go 
through it again.

> You
> don't have the right to scream "Fire!" in an occupied theater. Your
> rights end at the tip of my nose...etc..
 
Just as the USA has state laws and federal laws, the idea is for the 
countries of Europe to have their own laws, and also for there to be laws 
that we all subscribe to. And since TV and internet tends to cross 
borders, it makes sense to combine together on the laws of censorship for 
those media.

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