Censorship, just the mention of the word alone, to some people, seems to threaten or somehow put into jeopardy our freedom of speech which we so dearly treasure and believe to be our innate right as citizens of the United States. Many flag waving Americans, with all the good intentions in the world, are ready to fight for the "Letter of The Law", no matter how horrendous the consequences might be.

I do not believe that Thomas Jefferson and our great forefathers, even as keen and intelligent as they were, had any inkling as to the incredible complexities that the new technological society of today would hold. They wrote in the best of faith for the common, decent, simple man, with great respect, and with as much foresight as they could envision for that time. That was back in 1788, in Philadelphia Pennsylvania which was in a much smaller and certainly much less sop

histicated United States. I can't imagine that these great men, in all their wisdom, could possibly have envisioned serial rapists, serial murderer, child molesters, skin heads, nazis, much less the computer age and the intricate connection that they share.

A while ago, my little sister wanted to find a Barbie web-site. I already knew that child molesters often use names like that to lure in little girls. They enter Pokemon chat rooms also, to lure in small boys. I can think of so many times in the news when it is finally brought out, that convicted "so and so", just before he killed a little girl, was on some sadistic porn site or that some girl fell in love with some lunatic who she thought was seventeen but turned out to be a sixty year old pervert . It's scary, it's wrong, and it's dangerous to have to constantly protect ourselves from these materials. These aren't bad kids. They're nice, a little naive, but

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