Goatse, like Michelangelo's David, should be an exception to normal rules of censorship, due to its status as part of our shared cultural heritage.

BreakDecks@lemmy.ml · 7 months ago

Goatse, like Michelangelo's David, should be an exception to normal rules of censorship, due to its status as part of our shared cultural heritage.

paultimate14@lemmy.world · 7 months ago

Counterpoint: what if older societies already put in place censorship laws that were so successful, they effectively scrubbed any cultural memory of similar “works”?

Perhaps we should write our rules based on what we want in the future rather than what our ancestors did?