FourDegreez - 4:02 pm on Apr 11, 2003 (gmt 0)

<rant>I don't think we ought to Disney-fy the internet because some parents let their kids roam, unmonitored and unfiltered, around the web. No one wants to take responsibility for raising their kids anymore. Like it's the world's job to care about YOUR kid. And everything has to be dumbed down by default as a result. As if it's really so hard for a five year old to turn SE content filtering off anyway...

Personally, I would not prefer to be net nannied, nor do I know anyone who would. I would not prefer that the un-crawled sites that GoogleGuy mentioned be excluded from the SERPs by default. I would not want legitimate searches on "dual-use" keywords be filtered by default. I hear that this "Google" thing is a half-way decent search engine... probably won't be returning many hardcore porn results for innocuous queries anyway.

Let's not fall into the "think of the children!" hysteria... you can justify all kinds of censorship and Disneyfication when descending that slippery slope.</rant>