Grey matter for Internet scissors

摘要

I recently wrote about a proposal called the CP80 Internet Channel Initiative that is intended to "clean up" the 'Net. As I discussed, this proposal is, at best, a complete waste of time. At worst, I see CP80 as a dangerous political tool. There's been a lot of feedback and among this was an argument over whether CP80 constitutes censorship. The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, fourth edition, defines a censor as a "person authorized to examine books, films or other material and to remove or suppress what is considered morally, politically or otherwise objectionable." The definition of censorship from the same source is the "act, process or practice of censoring."