The fearsome internet meets religious violence in this call for Web censorship. A Kuwaiti writer observes a culture war in progress:
several newspaper websites, as well as some electronic [journals] and blogs - especially in Kuwait - have become mouthpieces [for those who] spread hatred and accuse [others] of heresy, atheism, and abandoning religion. [Owners of these websites] do not realize that some of us still live according to the medieval mentality, inveigled by the prospect of earning [the favors of] black-eyed virgins [in Paradise] by [spilling] the blood of a writer or a philosopher.
Al-Saraf then recommends:
"[It is not my purpose], either here or anywhere else, to call for curtailing freedom of speech or banning opinions; however, publications [must] be subject to [certain] rules and principles. I call on website owners, whose ranks I will join in near future, to undertake minimal censorship of responses [submitted to their sites] and to eliminate [those that are potentially] dangerous…"
That's a classic pro-censorship dodge: I'm not for censoring, except a little, and for our own good.
Note the emphasis on the Web purveying bad content. Here, the stuff is religiously negative (in context).
(via Net Effect)
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