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07-27-2001, 02:15 PM
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I am actually someone that has blocking software on my computer... and why... for a very good reason. I caught one of my brothers looking up porn sites... no big deal, he's well over the age to look at it... but THIS is why I have the software. I found some sites he had been to had tried to install porn links on my PC... and another tried to install what would have been a virus if it had not failed.

You see, I have blocking software to protect my computer from these "dodgy" porn sites that go and try to do things to your PC. I wouldn't mind if he just visited sites like Playboy and the like, but my brother doesn't know what to do with sites that can harm your PC. I'd be just as annoyed if he went to warez sites... simply because he doesn't know what he is doing. And I don't want to risk my computer at that.

I'm not sticking up in defence of censorship and this kind of software (in fact I laugh sometimes at censorship... I'll comment on this soon), but I'm just saying that there are other reasons people use blocking software. I also have a firewall on my PC for the exact same reason... security and protection.

As for censorship... isn't it strange how some stuff is censored and other isn't even worried about. Like you can watch a M15+ movie on cable here during the hours that kids watch TV... with sex scenes and swearing. But on the other hand the censors gave Final Fantasy VII a G rating... and the game has several adult references in it!!!

OK... they are stupid examples, but they are funny. I think that they should really just censor the stuff that is bad... like the child porn and the sick stuff and all the gory disturbing stuff. But as for a few video games with some blood and gore and stuff like that... then really it should be up to the induvidual. My parents always let me watch M movies when I was a kid.

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