First, not having .kids isn't censorship, unless you're arguing that
the absence
of every conceivable TLD that someone may with to promote
their own viewpoint
from is censorship. If you want to do ratings or
publish a ratings list, nobody's
stopping you - just do it on your
own or hire a company to do it for you.Second,
no, I can't _completely_ prevent parents (and others, such as
governments and
schools, who would certainly use it as well) from
censoring what children see.
Can you prevent parents from abusing
their children physically (I assume you're
against this...)? No, but
you can work against it... and I'm working against parents
abusing
their children intellectually and emotionally. I can do my best to
make
censorship as difficult as possible, and I can do my best to
remove the suppositions
of parental ownership of children (that's what
this is all about - whether parents
(or governments or whoever) own
children, or whether they own themselves) from
being used as a legal
standard. Parents can indeed "assemble what materials or
activities
they would put together for their own families"; I have no problems
with
this, so long as there isn't provable harm to children in so
doing (activities
such as physical abuse being among these...) -
indeed, preventing them from doing
so would indeed be censorship.
The idea that they then should be supported in
keeping out other
material is the problem. -Allen
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