Freedom of Speech online Options

[Goombaguy]

Speaking of Cyber Police....

I personally think it's sad that we've reached this level of freedom of speech online. The web is now cluttered with "video responses" giving peoples poorly thought-out opinions for a good several minutes on video clips that don't exceed 30 seconds. Here we can observe a child being given far too much free reign, particularly considering her age, which reinforces this negative image that net users seem to be developing. We are becoming the new "video game player" which was originally the "rap music listeners" who were at some point the "darned kids and their rock and roll", only this trend does not find itself predominantly owned by any one age group.

This issue with the net has been ongoing for a while, but the very existence of the web relies on a user-base sort of model. If no one uses the net, it doesn't grow. But how do we know where and when it should grow? Who is there to decide? YouTube staff have to sort, ever so slowly, through the videos members upload, looking for anything that violates their EULA. But outside of that, how can some standard of content be defined and then recognized?

So now we have "entitled" people with the means to flood a vast expanse that we call the internet, with their opinions and thoughts. What can really be done about it? How could we define sought after content from not? The best we currently have is "leaving it to the individual".

[Hasfusel]

Only semi-related at this stage, but



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END OF CONVERSATION, FROM. HER. FFFAATTHHHERRRR.

So I guess the moral of the story is that too much internet freedom is a good thing?
Or alternatively, don't screw with Anonymous.