Comments on: The problem with censorship: it’s not working http://www.marcuswestbury.net/2009/11/09/the-censorship-crisis/ my life. on the internets. Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:19:37 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Rebecca Cannon http://www.marcuswestbury.net/2009/11/09/the-censorship-crisis/comment-page-1/#comment-915 Rebecca Cannon Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:26:24 +0000 http://www.marcuswestbury.net/?p=769#comment-915 I think the solution is self-classification, as we're doing over at Licensd.com Sure, it's an illegal, trust-based system at the moment, but it works. I think the solution is self-classification, as we’re doing over at Licensd.com

Sure, it’s an illegal, trust-based system at the moment, but it works.

]]> By: Mark Newton http://www.marcuswestbury.net/2009/11/09/the-censorship-crisis/comment-page-1/#comment-893 Mark Newton Mon, 09 Nov 2009 00:03:07 +0000 http://www.marcuswestbury.net/?p=769#comment-893 Hi Marcus. Oddly enough, I started thinking about this from exactly the same premise (that censorship is increasingly impossible) as a response to Donald McDonald's unspeakably hilarious proposal to classify iPhone apps last month. I jotted some thoughts there: http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1307952&p=4#r74 I know it's a pretty simplistic and hopeful proposal ("the politics would disappear"), but at the end of the day any national debate about censorship which includes a suggestion that censorship is even possible anymore is intellectually bankrupt, so all we're left with is classification -- And since the CB has made such a terrible hash of that in the 20 years since the Internet has been mainstream I can't see why they should hold a monopoly over it. - mark Hi Marcus.

Oddly enough, I started thinking about this from exactly the same premise (that censorship is increasingly impossible) as a response to Donald McDonald’s unspeakably hilarious proposal to classify iPhone apps last month.

I jotted some thoughts there: http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1307952&p=4#r74

I know it’s a pretty simplistic and hopeful proposal (”the politics would disappear”), but at the end of the day any national debate about censorship which includes a suggestion that censorship is even possible anymore is intellectually bankrupt, so all we’re left with is classification — And since the CB has made such a terrible hash of that in the 20 years since the Internet has been mainstream I can’t see why they should hold a monopoly over it.

– mark

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