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Sorry Stacker, I didn't mean my post to come off as a flame, I was just irritated at the assertion from your post that I was worried about growing internet censorship because it meant access to fewer porn sites! Which wasn't what I'd meant at all, it's not that I had any special interest in viewing any of the banned sites, it's the gradual erosion of freedom that I'd be concerned about : e.g. first porn sites > gambling sites > poliitcal extremist sites > political oppenent sites > dissenting voices . It's easy to see how freedom can be eroded especially if it's done in a covert way. Already journalists are limited in what they can say about the present government without feeling intimidated, and is that really healthy for democracy?

Sure Stacker, I know there is a lot of material on the internet that is unsuitable for young children, and I too would be very wary of letting my children (if I had any!) have unsupervised access to the internet. But does that really mean the government should ban all material not suitable for children ?

Quote[/b] ]The software to allow parental control is even sold for $80 about 1 mile from where I live, to do the exact same thing these governments are doing.

Yep but then buying that would be responsibile parenting, it's a huge difference between that and the government making the whole society child-safe. If the government made everything child-safe, then no movies would ever have any swearing or violence in. Surely the best way to go is the present system, where responsbile parents choose what their children can see and not see, while adults can see things that aren't necessarily child-safe if they want to.

By the way, the list showing percentage of blocked sites is http://cyber.police.go.th/webreport/report/sum.php