Originally Posted by
Wolf Kanno
When I was making this thread, I was thinking of the villains from MGS2 actually. I could easily back Solidus' plans to stop the Patriots, but funny enough, I can't really argue with the what the Patriots were doing as well, because hot damn people use the internet for mostly trivial dumb trout and I do sometimes wondering if the lack of filters is culturally dumbing down society in some ways.
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Once you start putting in place filters to "protect the culture", who decides what gets filtered out, and why? The censorship route doesn't end well.
And, frankly, the exact same things have been said about every other form of media, from comic books to games to novels to opera.