FishNose opened this issue on Oct 23, 2003 ยท 40 posts
Orio posted Thu, 23 October 2003 at 4:21 PM
You have my sympathy Fish. I haven't lived a censoring regime directly, but my parents did, during the fascist era, and from what I have been told, I am totally scared about censorship - and that's why I fight it. Censorship is amongst the biggest humiliations that mankind can suffer. Prison can deprive you of your physical freedom, but censorship deprives you of your intellectual freedom. Don't really know, what is worse. And many people dont' understand that taking control of what's decent or not, can be just the first step to take control of what's moral or not, of what's admissible or not... just the first step to thoughts slavery. Some people are afraid of pornographers. I don't like and don't support pornography, but I am much more afraid of censors, than I am of pornographers, and if I had to choose one of them between them, I would have no doubt. (apart from the obvious fact that there is no pornographers here on Rosity).