Hate On The Net

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be removed from the net. Some Internet Service Providers are already starting to block access to sites they see as harboring extreme material.
Why is this happening? Have we all lost the ability to reason for ourselves? People are quite capable of making up their own minds about what they read or see on the net.
Freedom of speech is often misunderstood to be a gift to crackpots, racists, or demagogues. But the truth is the opposite. The people who are really empowered by free speech are not the speakers but the audience. Free speech puts a premium on the decision-making ability of each of us to weigh up all the arguments and draw our own conclusions.
However, certain consolations can be made to these people, such as our children. Material such as this is not appropriate for the eyes of the impressionable, so we must police these sites away from their access. Perhaps making age verification a standard with sites thought to be too explicit for them.
The problem with ...

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