Originally Posted by Paul Markham

The problem with the Internet "Freedom" is what it means to many who will take advantage of it.

Spamming to a level that servers are slowing down, people invading others machines to send spam and a lot of the spam being straight fraud. You can regulate how many emails are sent for free and how many are paid for and spamming becomes unprofitable.

Piracy is rife and costing many people their jobs. Not just in this industry, others are effected as well. Is freedom the right for me to take your work and share it with a thousand others? Who might of paid and kept you in a job. Most of the piracy is supported by commerce. Torrent sites are supported by adverts, should Coca Cola be allowed to advertise on a site that promotes piracy? We know about Tubes.

People putting up sites simply to rip off credit cards. A few years ago a big New York publisher was caught charging cards they did not have the right to charge. The freedom to put up a site and bill people is too easy and used by people who will rip others off in as many ways as they can think of.

Illegal pornography, like child porn and the more extreme porn. If it's illegal to publish it in a country because that country has passed laws saying it's illegal why should the Internet be exempt from those laws? You do support democracy or not?

I'm not scared if they clamp down on extreme porn, I can make a living shooting softer content. They will never ban men jerking off.