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Jim Wallace: Filtering filth will not tangle the net

The real story here is not the dreadful repercussions of having internet filtering, but the dreadful repercussions of not having it.

Posted by Luke Stevens about 1 year ago on January 26 2009

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This is incredibly inane. Jim Wallace chides people opposed to mandatory filtered internet as abusing the figures, and then runs the “Won’t somebody think of the children?!” argument up the flagpole. Embarrassing.

#2 | 12:46 pm - 26 January 2009

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