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Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Oh, why is it always a Democrat who steps up to flip out about scary media? Why can’t dems just be the mature, able to handle stuff like grown ups party? But political pandering aside, [Grand Theft Auto: San Andrea] is rated M (FOR MATURE ure ure ure). You know, for grown ups only. And furthermore, as an adult, I don’t want my right to access media that I like, to be hindered because some child might accidentally see it. I am a grown up and I’m tired of being forced to cater to the tastes of children whose parents can’t be bothered to handle raising them.

This game isn’t meant for them anyway, and it’s not my fault if they see it. Sure kids might get access to it. Kids might also steal their parents’ car keys, break into their liquor cabinet and download porn. That problem can easily be solved if parent take an extra five minutes to pay attention to their kids’ activities.
Ross A Lincoln
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The Internet views censorship as a network failure, and routes around it.
John Gilmore
The singers were halfway down Park Lane now, and halfway through ‘The Red Rosy
Hen’ in marvellous harmony.*



* ‘The red rosy hen greets the dawn of the day’. In fact the hen is not the bird traditionally associated with heralding a new sunrise, but Mrs Huggs, while collecting many old folk songs for posterity, has taken care to rewrite them where necessary to avoid, as she put it, ‘offending those of a refined disposition with unwarranted coarseness’. Much to her surprise, people often couldn’t spot the unwarranted coarseness until it had been pointed out to them.
Sometimes a chicken is nothing but a bird.
Terry Pratchett
Book: Hogfather