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Wordfilters and freedom of speech

Web filtering is strictly connected with at least partial censorship. It’s been many times reminded that the Internet is the first independent and unrestrained medium, so everybody might publish whatever he or she wants. Is that true? Has it ever been true? In fact, everything that we put into the Internet might get immediately censored – website might get blocked with a anti spam, some content might be even deleted. If you’d ever read any forum, you must have noticed one more form of censoring – wordfilters. It depends on hiding words considered as vulgar. Specific script changes word’s letters and replaces them with *** or – as well – put random letters instead of proper ones. Wordfiltering might be sometimes useful, but sometimes it’s nothing more than care of political correctness and turns into officiousness. In fact, there are a lot of much more important areas of Url filtering that demand attention and improving, while freedom of speech should remain unrestrained. People must understand that they cannot turn the Internet into a Sunday school library, so they shouldn’t even try – it’s pointless. So instead of deliberating how to turn people into courteous lambs, they should think about the real Internet safety.

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