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Kenzu Milagro @Kenzu

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What About all the Madness Fla shes? and ZONE's too? and why there is all of this "bicycle, fortune cookie and china?"
i cant understand a word of new grounds anymore(well, maybe not a word, but some sentences stopped making sense. China can not me accessed in China?)
If there is a translation board for that stuff...
and... what about everyone else? we will all be excessively filtered just because of a country named china???

I realize I'm sort of traveling back in time to reply to this, and nearly a couple of years back at that, but still:

What you proposed a year and a half ago in one response to a comment, Tom actively flagging things to not be displayed, would go against what Newgrounds stands for. Namely, the open and free sharing of ideas and art.

Other companies, like Google, are willing to do so because their primary purpose is to make money. Newgrounds' primary purpose, however, is not a matter of money. It is a matter of free communication of ideas, which is something the CPC does not want. And in all honesty, if Tom 'were' to follow through on your suggestion and start filtering the majority of what comes in into the "mature" section(which is currently reserved pretty specifically for hard-core porn), I'd stop using the site.

As far as asking the Chinese government to unblock the site and filter only certain animations? They either can't or won't. Why? Man-power. They would have to have someone sitting there twenty-four hours a day in order to view each and every animation in order to make sure only animations they deemed 'appropriate' made it through.

That's one person, twenty-four hours a day, dedicated 'solely to watching the Newgrounds Flash portal'. That's unrealistic.

As for your stating that certain 'ideas' should be blocked? No, they shouldn't. Just because you disagree with something does not mean it should be blocked. People believing one race or another is superior to another? It's their right to believe that, and their right to state it out loud.

A wise man by name of François Marie Arouet, otherwise known as Voltaire, once said, "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

The freedom to say whatever you like, to openly share your ideas, regardless of how deplorable others may find them to be, is one of the cornerstones of any genuinely free nation. Without that freedom, all others are useless. They are, in fact, worse than useless because they lure people into a false sense of security. After all, if the most basic human liberty is removed who's to say what will be taken away next?

Now, as far as child pornography? Literal, physical pornography of living children 'should' be, and in most nations 'is', outlawed. But there's a difference between that and racism/Nazi propoganda. What difference, you may ask?

Racism and Nazi propoganda are ideas. Thoughts. They are not physical entities. Child pornography, on the other hand, involves bringing direct physical and mental harm to a living, breathing child. It is not an idea, it is a physical action taken against a child who is likely too young to understand what's happening.

If you can't see the difference between a physical act and a thought, then may whatever God you happen to believe in have mercy on your soul.