[ronniebryan]

"At some point they're just going to have to realize that their stranglehold is evaporating and eventually they are going to have to adjust their prices to be more realistic. After all, if you can buy a movie on DVD for $10-$20 where all the agencies and talent get their cut, it doesn't make sense that the CD soundtrack should be the same price where only the music agency and the music talent get their cut but there are no actors and film studio to receive their royalties. "

Alright, people aren't we getting a little off topic, what can we do to keep the web at a neutral state? I supported Google along with 7 million others in a protest against SOPA/PIPA. It was all that I knew I could do.I am open to suggestions, but besides a black out, and what has already been done. What could your average net user actually, do and I agree some sort of censorship should be allowed, after all we have the youth of the nation(s) to consider.

What could your average net user actually, do? there should have been a question mark inserted after, the question=)

[tlhIn`toq]

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I agree some sort of censorship should be allowed, after all we have the youth of the nation(s) to consider.

That is something I cannot agree with. It is not my place to worry about your kid. That's your job. If you can't control your kid and raise him to stick to sites you approve why should I be forced to pay for that? Install 'Net Nanny on you PC rather than dumb-down all of the internet. Free market business is self-regulating. If DIC had ads for 50 porn sites and some guy didn't want their kid on it, they would use a different site that didn't have those ads.

You simply can't regulate the degree of objectionable material because what is objectionable to you is not to me. The USA doesn't allow boob on primetime broadcast TV. But they do in Europe and Mexico. Are you saying that European kids are being scared by the millions? I say they are growing up less prudish.

In the end, you simply have to quit trying to control that which can't be controlled. The internet is a free market environment. It is its own world with its own rules.

At best you might get some zoning laws in place, just like a city. You can't place a strip bar within 10 miles of a school. So for the internet you might have to register any site that shows boobs as .porn so programs like 'Net Nanny can filter them and they can be blocked from work sites.

In the end, its a loosing battle.

[Curtis Rutland]

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what can we do to keep the web at a neutral state

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I agree some sort of censorship should be allowed

Are mutually exclusive. Government censorship means the web is not neutral, by it's very definition.

Now, does that mean the government shouldn't do what it can to arrest perpetrators of criminal activity over the web? Of course not. People pushing kiddie porn or such over the internet deserve to get dealt with. But just handing the power to the government to go and shut down sites isn't the answer, that's too much power.

[ronniebryan]

tlhIn`toq, on 08 February 2012 - 09:00 AM, said:

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I agree some sort of censorship should be allowed, after all we have the youth of the nation(s) to consider.

That is something I cannot agree with. It is not my place to worry about your kid. That's your job. If you can't control your kid and raise him to stick to sites you approve why should I be forced to pay for that? Install 'Net Nanny on you PC rather than dumb-down all of the internet. Free market business is self-regulating. If DIC had ads for 50 porn sites and some guy didn't want their kid on it, they would use a different site that didn't have those ads.

You simply can't regulate the degree of objectionable material because what is objectionable to you is not to me. The USA doesn't allow boob on primetime broadcast TV. But they do in Europe and Mexico. Are you saying that European kids are being scared by the millions? I say they are growing up less prudish.

In the end, you simply have to quit trying to control that which can't be controlled. The internet is a free market environment. It is its own world with its own rules.

At best you might get some zoning laws in place, just like a city. You can't place a strip bar within 10 miles of a school. So for the internet you might have to register any site that shows boobs as .porn so programs like 'Net Nanny can filter them and they can be blocked from work sites.

In the end, its a loosing battle.

I see where you are com,ing from, I gave you a green plus, your post was educational.

[WolfCoder]

Even if you did try to censor the Internet, groups exist that vigilantly find ways around it.

[ronniebryan]

"I see where you are com,ing from, I gave you a green plus, your post was educational." I meant to fix this yesterday, seems I am having Malware Problems on my other computer and now it won't open web browsers I downloaded Avira and ran a scan, used C Cleaner and Malware Bytes, Forgot about Stopzila that is what I use on this computer.It was doing fine, until all the scanning had completed.
seems, I may have to take the other computer into the shop.

I see where you are coming from. I gave you a gree plus, the post was very educational. Thank You