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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Browncoat" data-source="post: 221306" data-attributes="member: 1061">Transparency, aka full disclosure. Why is that so important? When you purchase something new, do you require a list where all the parts came from? I don't get it.And you are advocating labels and disclaimers, because there's no way around it from concept to implementation. Ultimately, let's call this what it really is: censorship.cen·sor  [sen-ser] noun1.an official who examines books, plays, news reports, motion pictures, radio and television programs,letters, cablegrams, etc., for the purpose of suppressing parts deemed objectionable on moral,political, military, or other grounds.2.any person who supervises the manners or morality of others.3.an adverse critic; faultfinder.And this is why I am vehemently opposed to it, because of what it really is. It is a form of suppression and control, and it has no place in the realm of creativity or the arts. Powers that be have tried to define this, that, or the other since the beginning of time in an effort to classify and control it. Censors ultimately lead to full bans because there is rarely universal agreement on "what is" and "what isn't". I'm a fairly conservative guy. There are a lot of things that I find vulgar, profane, ugly, disgusting, questionable, and downright blasphemous. I despise music that drops the F-bomb every other word. I dislike abstract art that looks like color blobs on a canvas. I think those people with gigantic hole piercings in their ears are repulsive. I don't like that my daughter has taken to dying her hair a different color every other week. But I would never seek to deny any of them the means to express themselves.</blockquote>

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