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Targeted ads would be the least of my worries. What concerns me is fascist governments deciding they get to filter whatever they're contempt with. Such censorship doesn't fit well with civil liberties, we know this from other countries which already have nation-wide filtering.

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This is why I believe the 'opt-in/out' switching should be as seemless and accessible as possible - if it is, then to my mind this is no closer to censorship than the film classification system.

"By default the state assumes you don't want to see sexual content; if you do - thats fine by us"

Note that I'm saying this is how I see it balancing with civil liberties - there is of course the chance that it DOESN'T work out like this in practice.

I'm not sure this is as simple as an opt in/out switch for the user. It will also require the construction of a way of rating sites as in or out, which will lead to the government being able to choose sites to fall one side of the filter or the other.

It begins with porn, of course, but it's essentially creating the apparatus to censor at will.

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